Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to answer that basic question, the experts discovered that the bullet-marking characteristics of Sirhan's Iver Johnson .22-cal. revolver had changed since the night it was fired in the Ambassador Hotel. The panel found that the inside of the barrel was fouled by a thin layer of copper alloy that probably stemmed from test firings by the Los Angeles police. The panel squeezed off eight shots into a tank of water, compared the bullets with the original three, studied the barrel of Sirhan's gun, and finally gave up. They announced that they could...
...increase, which took effect Oct. 1, follows a nine-month price freeze imposed by the cartel last December. World prices had been pegged to the $10.46 that Saudi Arabia charged for a 42-gal. barrel loaded at the Persian Gulf port of Ras Tanura. In the U.S., which imports about a third of its oil, the increase when averaged in with prices of domestic oil will add less than 10 per gal. to the price of gasoline, heating oil and other products. Most other nations import a greater percentage of their crude and will feel the increase more, especially those...
...that had come out to meet him that day in Dallas in 1963. Once again, precisely at 9:57 a.m. on Friday, the threat suddenly materialized out of nowhere. A movement in the crowd, a raising of a hand, and to his astonishment, Ford found himself looking down the barrel of a loaded .45 Colt automatic pistol scarcely 2 ft. away. There was a brief flurry, and then the Secret Service subdued a social misfit, a psychological cripple, who might have easily assassinated the President...
Before leaving for work, Doug takes a brief stroll down the narrow path to the bottom of his garden. Barrel-chested and brisk-gaited, as befits a onetime gymnast, he is a compact man who gives his height as "5 ft., buggerall" but is more like 5 ft. 5 in. He pauses to check his tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, beans, potatoes and onions. "These are my pride and joy," he says. "I look after them like my union members...
...several marathon talks throughout the week with Costa Gomes, the chiefs of staff and members of the all-military Revolutionary Council, Gonçalves had exerted every effort to survive. "They may have to march Gonçalves out at the end of a barrel of a gun," said one Western diplomat. "But the alternative would be an uprising in the countryside." In fact, violence continued to erupt in northern and central Portugal, where mobs have wrecked some 50 Communist Party headquarters this summer. When a power failure cut off electricity throughout the country for a day, there were widespread...