Word: bullet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joined another of his lawyers, Gene Reeves Jr., 47, in walking three blocks down Perry Street to the V and J Cafeteria. They were strolling back to the courthouse at 11:55 a.m. when there were two bursts of gunfire. Flynt toppled forward, face first, onto a concrete driveway, bullet holes in his abdomen. Reeves, struck in his arm and chest, staggered a few feet and collapsed on the sidewalk (he was later reported to be in satisfactory condition...
...Button Gwinnett Hospital, Flynt lay in critical condition. Surgeons began by removing much of his intestine. Then, in a second operation, they removed his spleen. After transferring him to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, doctors finally removed the bullet lodged near his spinal cord. It had cut spinal nerves, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors gave him less than a fifty-fifty chance of regaining full use of his legs. President Carter's sister, Ruth Stapleton, who had presided over Flynt's celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called...
...collapse of the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s. But Kattel had made himself vulnerable through overoptimism; he long refused to write down the value of loans in the bank's faltering portfolio. As C & S head, he had developed the boyish habit of sending symbolic bullets to Atlantans who made tough decisions. He dispatched one to Lance, whom he had helped to raise money for Jimmy Carter's Inauguration, when Lance was grilled by a Senate committee about his banking affairs. More important, Kattel made numerous statements that recovery for Atlanta and C & S was just...
...knew that you'd make it," his wife told him cheerily on the phone. "Hurry on home." He did. As he removed his coat, something fell to the floor. It was a spent bullet...
Enigmatic center Leslie Greis did the bulk of the damage, pumping in eight points during this stretch enroute to a game-high 18 points. The bespectacled sophomore center, who alternates between flashes of brilliant, aggressive play underneath and spectatorly passivity, opened her binge with a layup off a bullet-pass from freshman guard Sue Field...