Word: swung
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Police and the Iowa division of criminal investigation quickly reconstructed what had happened. A few serving dishes had been passed, and the six family members were just beginning to eat when Robert appeared in the dining-room doorway, pointing a high-powered, semiautomatic rifle. Firing short bursts, he swung the rifle barrel right around the table. Nobody had time to move. They all died within 30 seconds. Then he stepped back into the hallway, picked up a shotgun he had left there, pushed the barrel up under his chin, and blew his brains...
...into concentrating its forces in the wrong places until the very end. Six of Iraq's 42 divisions were massed along the Kuwaiti coast, guarding against a seaborne invasion. U.S. Marines repeatedly practiced amphibious landings, as conspicuously as possible, and as zero hour approached, an armada of 31 ships swung into position to put them ashore near Kuwait City. The battleships Missouri and Wisconsin took turns, an hour at a time, firing their 16-in. guns at Iraqi shore defenses. It was all a feint; * the war ended with 17,000 Marines still aboard their ships...
...awkward way, a traumatic way," he said. "My body was turned one way, and my legs swung another way. It felt like someone had shot me. I couldn't wiggle my legs or toes. That moment was the high point of pain...
What they are doing there is still a mystery. At one end of the speculative spectrum is the theory that at least some fled after the failure of an Iraqi air force coup to overthrow Saddam; at the opposite end is the possibility that Saddam has swung a deal to have Iran keep them safe for a while, then return them to him later in the war. The prevailing idea is that Saddam intends to stash them away for use by a postwar Iraqi regime that he thinks he will still head. This is backed up by repeated Iranian assurances...
...while many workers in search of a reasonable salary and a flexible schedule have chosen to cabby for a living, today that option is not as attractive as it once was. The cost-benefit scale has swung against drivers, as fixed expenses that once seemed reasonable when balanced against longterm pay-offs are becoming increasingly unwieldy...