Word: buckshotting
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...escaped convict has been in the vicinity, Mrs. Winders and her bloodhound Portia join police from neighboring areas in the chase. Her most serious current problem is an ubiquitous peeping Tom. "They're the hardest to catch," she says. "But I'd like to put some buckshot into...
...point of view of the heroine half a century later. Thus the violence is imbued with a bigger-than-camp Bonnie and Clyde quality: the stock two-dimensional figures of the familiar western landscape become disfigured here with a three-dimensional reality as limbs are chopped off and buckshot imbeds itself painfully beneath facial skin...
...adjoining rooms for more intensive interrogation. While no witness claimed to have seen the actual killings, survivors agree that at least two of the dead youths were taken away and that subsequently shots were heard. Later, the sprawled bodies of the three youths were found lying in blood from buckshot wounds. At week's end, two policemen were formally charged with first-degree murder. Also under arrest as suspects in the killing of a white policeman were two young Negroes, jailed after the shooting of an officer in a scuffle over...
...work in my stores," he complains, "because they're scared someone's going to stick a gun in their bellies." Desperate, Robertson last month contracted with the Clyde Wilson detective agency to supply a posse of private guards toting twelve-gauge shotguns loaded with No. 1 buckshot. Two other dry cleaning-laundry chains bought into the arrangement, and six additional businesses with retail branches requested the same protection when enough men could be recruited. For his manpower, Wilson relied primarily on off-duty city policemen...
...meters through the air-in order to protect the grenadier from their fragments. A multishot M-79 is currently being tested in Viet Nam, and to solve the problem of close-in fire fights grenadiers are now issued 40-mm. "cannister" rounds whose heavy loads of Double-O buckshot blast out of the barrel as if from a sawed-off shotgun, cutting down everything within a 20-ft. radius. "If you used it on skeet," says one veteran, "you'd take down the skeet tower...