Word: buckshotting
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...Philip showed well enough in his way that he can look after himself." But Philip's remarks ("bloody" is a curse word in Britain), said the Express, "were ill-mannered," and his reputation "must inevitably suffer in consequence." As for Sir Martin, his complaints were "silly and ignorant." Buckshot for Royalty. Sir Martin got little support for his censure petition in Parliament; and Fleet Street's other newspapers, while crowing at the Beaverbrook predicament, could ill afford to be too righteous in their condemnations-especially after the peevish chorus they had sung when Antony Armstrong-Jones took...
...gang began operations in 1956 in the small island town of Mazzarino, site of a 200-year-old Capuchin monastery. One of its first alleged victims was Father Agrippino, whose evening prayers were interrupted one November night by a buckshot blast into the wall beside him. A few days later, Carmelo Lo Bartolo, the monastery gardener, trotted up to the friar, informed him sadly that anonymous scoundrels wanted $320 or they would aim better next time. Father Agrippino settled with the messenger...
Teamster officials deny that the union is behind the battle of the buckshot. "We don't condone any violence," says Robert Cook, president of Atlanta's Teamster Local 728. "A scab is one of the lowest-down humans there can be, but I'm against anybody shooting at anybody." Still, eight striking Bowman Teamsters have been arrested since November. And last week Sam Webb, president of northern Alabama's Local 612, was indicted for assault with intent to kill in the Warren shooting...
...trust me." A hurt tone crept into Patterson's voice. "To say that I couldn't enforce the law is the worst insult they could have thrown at me. The Kennedys couldn't get enough votes in Alabama this morning to wad buckshot...
Most of the boost would be for military-type aid, from this year's $1.3 billion to $2 billion next year. In the request for economic-type aid, totaling $2.2 billion, the Administration shifted from a buckshot to a bullet approach, aiming sizable funds at a few key areas: black Africa, free China and the Indus River development project for India and Pakistan, to be financed jointly by the U.S., the British Commonwealth and West Germany...