Word: bombardment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sets, including a fancy art deco U.S.O. dance hall, all look real, and a few of the facts are real. A lone Japanese sub marine did bombard the California coast not long after Pearl Harbor, and a kind of panic resulted. There were also zoot-suit riots in Los Angeles, but they did not occur until later on, and it was not Stilwell who put them down (though he commanded the Third Corps at Monterey in the early days of the war). Spielberg has simply brought everything together in one mad moment. Says he: "It's about a week...
Relishing the opportunity to display their offensive skills, the laxwomen penetrated the Bowdoin defense time after time. Freshman Lisa Kent notched four goals in the first half, with three in a row just before the whistle blew. Kent continued to bombard the Bowdoin goalie when she opened the second half with two more quick scores...
Shea unfortunately injured his ankle early in the second half, leaving only Maturo to bombard the rim late in the game. Maturo ended the game with 19 points while Shea collected ten, all in the first stanza...
They are jailed, confined in mental institutions, harassed in a dozen ways, ranging from merely annoying to brutal. But Soviet dissidents call press conferences, circulate forbidden books and manuscripts, bombard Washington, Paris and the Vatican with their protests. As soon as one of their number is arrested, wives, children and friends set up a clamor. Sakharov is almost a tourist attraction in Moscow, and regularly receives foreign newsmen. None of this would have been conceivable under Stalin...
Women's groups also continued to bombard him with complaints against Dunlop, claiming that he had been insensitive to improving equal employment rights when he was Ford's Labor Secretary. They were quickly joined by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Congress Watch, the congressional Black Caucus and other groups. But Carter was caught in a crossfire from most of organized labor, which wanted Dunlop. At one point, Carter aides asked AFL-CIO officials to suggest alternatives to Dunlop who would be acceptable to Labor Boss