Word: buckshotting
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...Maurice Tobin, McCarthy had magnanimous indulgence: "A fine young gentleman* who was ordered to do a job, and he did that job." Then, diving frequently into his brown bag for a black photostat, a picture, or a wad of congressional transcript, he turned his buckshot on his archenemies, Secretary of State Acheson, Defense Secretary Marshall, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup. He set the veterans whooping when he offered to take his case against Acheson and Jessup "to a jury of twelve men and twelve women . . . if the President's spokesmen can find a way to get them...
This weird optical system enables the camera to cover a 52° field, taking in one-tenth of the area of the visible sky. Where earlier meteor cameras were blind to any meteor smaller than a marble, the new model will photograph the tracks of meteors as small as buckshot. As soon as a duplicate camera is completed, the meteormen can compare their films and tell by triangulation the distance and altitude of each meteor trail...
Meteors as small as buckshot will be tracked and photographed as they whirl through space by a new telescope-camera just acquired by the College Observatory...
...University started an investigation of its meat supply yesterday when 15 Kirkland men exhumed buckshot from their "tenderized steak...
Just why birdshot is being used to slaughter cattle is still a mystery. Buckshot would probably be much more efficient and much less expensive. However, no one would question the Administration's right to a few secrets...