Word: swatting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday morning, Sanders had permitted Officer Hester to shout from a window that he was all right. Police, meanwhile, began monitoring sounds in the house with boom microphones. Later that night they also moved a TACT force (a local SWAT team) into the area. Early Thursday morning, police at the listening devices heard Sanders say, "My daddy's dead, my brother's dead, and the devil's dead." Assuming that the "devil" meant Hester, police stormed the house with tear gas and gunfire. Within minutes the firefight was over. Hester's battered body was found just...
Morrisonville was heavily populated with Bakers, and on soft summer nights young Russell would listen quietly as they gathered on his grandmother's porch to swat flies and swap news. Someone had lost his arm in a thresher accident, some one else had a sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
...professor is sapped of youthful energy, and the absurd, exaggerated pettiness of life buzzes around his ears like a mosquito he can neither see nor swat. McCormmach skillfully tinges Jakob's world with Kafkaesque visions. As he talks to the director of the physics institute, Jakob realizes that the man "hadn't heard a word. But perhaps he hadn't said anything." The resident assistant professor erases Jakob's equations and Scrawls in a corner of the blackboard, "Prof. Jakob's space." The janitor steals Jakob's equipment. Jakob can only retaliate by writing a note to the director...
...male can weigh more than 1,600 Ibs. (vs. grizzlies at 1,000 Ibs. and tigers at 850 Ibs.). If the bear is determined enough, it will barge right in; few doors are much use against powerful paws that can knock out an 800-lb. seal with a single swat...
Oversized racket sales -- with prices ranging from $100-300 -- grew by 60 per cent last year. The racquets have put the snowshoe on the other foot, prompting Prince users to jeer outdated traditionalist and mock the mini-racquet antiques. What's that for. . . Stir your martinis? Swat mosquitos? Nail down the lines...