Word: buckshotting
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...onto the scene and cops began firing shotguns over the heads of the crowd while Negroes pelted them with rocks. Later, Negro youths began stoning passing white cars. The police ordered them to stop. One boy, Johnny Robinson, 16, ran, and a cop killed him with a blast of buckshot. That made five dead and 17 injured in the bomb blast...
Shifting Ground. Some of Lasky's buckshot pellets do, of course, hit home. He is especially effective in documenting some of the inconsistencies of Kennedy's political career. "How long can we continue deficit financing on such a large scale with a national debt of over $285 billion?" Kennedy asked the House as a Congressman in 1950 before casting his vote to cut federal spending across the board by $600 million. Yet, under Kennedy, the federal debt has risen to $300 billion, and he has presented a 1964 budget deliberately in deficit by at least $10 billion. "There...
...American Express and Thomas Cook with a debonair salute; he guides gladiatorial traffic with a calm nonchalance. Frenchmen look on le flic quite differently. Apart from their dislike of taking orders from anyone, they know that frequently in the hem of his natty blue cape is sewn enough buckshot to break a man's-and sometimes a woman's-nose. They have seen him wading into a crowd flailing a 6-ft. riot cane like a scythe...
...bikini and a leopard-spotted water mattress. Click! went a distant telescopic-lens camera, and France's sex kitten arched her back ever so cautiously. Her latest beau, Cinemactor Sami Frey, who has been a summer guest at her Saint-Tropez villa, recently blasted off another shutterbug with buckshot as he snapped away at BB from the rushes along the shore...
...film; the reality of art has been diluted by easily available and excellent color copies. Even God is pseudo: "the Celebrity-Author of the World's Best Seller." Only the world of crime is left as "a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event." Boorstin's buckshot is indiscriminate and incessant; he blasts away at such riddled targets as publicity handouts and celebrity endorsements and searches out new underworlds to conquer. Museums merely conceal the "vital organs of a living culture," air travel "robs me of the landscape," highway travel discourages wayside stops...