Word: swatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Half of Harvard's goals were gifts, too. Big Red starting goalie Eddy Skazyk stopped Joe Craigen's shot only to have his own defenseman swat the puck off of himself and into his own net to give the Crimson a 3-2 lead. And Henry Higdon's second goal that put Harvard up 4-3 gave new meaning to the word sieve for back-up netminder Jason Elliott as the puck inexcusably scooted through the goalie...
...extortionist threatened to blow up Boston with a nuclear device unless he was paid $200,000. Since then, NEST has evaluated 110 threats, and mobilized itself to deal with about 30 of them; like the Boston incident, all have been hoaxes. Yet NEST is more than a high-tech SWAT team. At the remote Pajarito site in the Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory complex in New Mexico, 17 scientists are using technology found on the shelves of Radio Shack and the type of nuclear fuel sold on the black market to construct homemade bombs. To dismantle a makeshift device, scientists...
...narrow to handle the increasing flow of traffic, so the authorities brought in heavy equipment to widen it. Partway through the job, however, a road-leveling tractor uncovered the opening to a cave no one knew was there. Work came to an immediate halt, and within hours a scientific swat team descended on the site to study...
...destruct-o-rama, kids! Fun for the whole dysfunctional family! Because it exploits children's weakness for noise, clutter and anarchy, Jumanji is a perfect Christmas gift--for Bob Dole. Let's see if the Movie Morals Monitor goes after a PG film that really deserves a righteous swat...
LAST SPRING, AS PASTOR ROBERT ROBERSON HANDED out groceries from the food bank at his Pentecostal church in East Wenatchee, Washington, a SWAT team surrounded the building, then handcuffed the minister and took him in for questioning. At the same time, Roberson's wife Connie was called out of a class she was attending at Wenatchee Valley College and arrested. Their daughter, four-year-old Rebekah, was taken by Child Protective Services, placed in foster care and subjected to intense recovered-memory therapy; the Robersons--who were imprisoned for 4 1/2 months--have not seen or talked to her since...