Word: buckshotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestication to hunt, drink and rough it, a combination of Boy Scoutery and male blood rite. In New Jersey, for a brief period, deer hunting also became a form of semi-legalized mayhem as unqualified hunters, often as loaded as the weapons they carried, took to the woods with buckshot, and, along with their deer, managed to kill a fair number of cows-and fellow sportsmen...
...residents in Soweto formed their own vigilante groups to protect themselves. Police, at first delighted by the Zulu backlash, were belatedly ordered to move in and separate the black combatants. Police admitted killing 14 of the week's victims and wounding dozens of the others with small-size buckshot-a tactic ordered by Justice Minister Kruger to keep the death toll down...
...independence and then trying to break back into the league from which they have been summarily shut out by the owners. For social significance, the movie includes a player who functions as a sort of Jackie Robinson surrogate. For contrast there is Richard Pryor, an actor-comedian of buckshot brilliance. Pryor calculates every line and gesture for small, explosive effect, and his aim stays true. He shows up here as Charlie Snow, a third baseman who hopes to break into big-league ball by passing himself off as a Cuban...
...least three Winthrop House residents had an unpleasant surprise at dinner Tuesday night, when they discovered buckshot in their meat...
Davis said he did not know where the buckshot came from, but that the Purchasing Department will conduct an investigation in an attempt to prevent any future occurrences of this type...