Word: buckshotting
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...running game for a minus 15 yds., gave up only 8 yds. in six tries to All-America Halfback Billy Cannon, who had won the first game with an 89-yd. punt return (TIME, Nov. 9). On offense, Mississippi turned radical, riddled L.S.U. defenses with passes like buckshot (15 completions in 27 attempts). Final score: Mississippi 21, L.S.U...
...curfew. The two killers were waiting for them in the shadow of a nearby clump of evergreens. As Touhy and Miller went up the steps of Ethel Alesia's porch, the gunmen stepped to the walk behind them, fired low with six blasts of 12-gauge, 00 buckshot pellets...
...much airplane as boat, they are bellowing giants powered by World War II fighter-plane engines, ride on two hand-size patches of hull and the submerged half of a whirling propeller, skip along the water like a flat stone thrown from shore, tossing spray with the sting of buckshot. No one knows how fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like a fighter strip...
Furious, he conducts a one-man raid on a well-known elephant trapper's stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to the U.S. public as a glorious but unsung hero, "a modern Robin Hood...
Spiking his debate with partisan references to "vicuña" and "Eisenhower recession," Passman-armed with an impressive amount of detail on the program -got away virtually unchallenged with horrendous buckshot charges. Sample: "The defense support part of this program in all probability has been responsible for more bribery, overpricing, conniving and profit taking on the part of officials and friends of officials in foreign nations than any program ever conceived by the mind...