Word: swats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to police, four Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) men knocked on the door, announced who they were and set to work at once with the battering ram. The door burst open on the third swing. In the police version, the SWAT team stumbled into a hail of automatic-weapons fire; the Panthers insist that the police opened fire first. It was nearly an hour before newsmen arrived, and when they did, police kept them more than two blocks away. "The fury of the gun battle was right out of Viet Nam," reports TIME Correspondent Martin Sullivan. "Hundreds of rounds...
With one ferocious swat of his head, Ted sent the balloon up to the ceiling, where it hit against a light and burst. Ted turned to his audience and coolly said, "All right, let's begin." He led the students, about two thirds of whom were girls, out onto the floor of the assembly room, a little larger than a basketball court. He spaced them out, dimmed the lights, and said, "We'll start with breathing exercise...
...odyssey of cockney mechanic Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and missionary Rose (Katharine Hepburn) down uncharted African waters suggests tense comedy-melodrama: they must, after all, evade rifle fire, skirt rapids, fix boilers, swat flies, brave swamps, remove leeches, blow up German cruisers, and fall in love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique...
...doorstep. Salesman mulls, then casually breaks off section of door frame. Homeowner reflects, then rips off salesman's shirt. Other salesman blinks, frowns, and throws brick through window. Homeowner throws brick through windshield of salesmen's car. Salesmen attack homeowner's piano with axes, swat vases with spade handles. Homeowner tears off car headlights, doors, gas tank and sets auto ablaze. Salesmen demolish house, dig up lawn, hack down trees and shrubbery...
...take so long to hit back? Carl Ally, 42, head of a four-year-old agency that bears his name and now holds the Hertz account, explains the delay this way: "If a little guy comes up to you on the street and tugs at your coat and you swat him, everybody will say, 'You shouldn't have done that.' But if you walk on for 14 blocks and he keeps tugging, then people think you're justified to punch...