Word: buckshotting
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...frank, chief, if you had speared one of those whom I had baptized, I would have taken this gun and would have fired without mercy all the cartridges of this belt into your crowd.' 'Hm, hm, are there bullets in your gun?' 'No, chief. Only buckshot and small shot, the kind I use on hyenas.' 'The kind you use on hyenas! Why?' 'Because I would have enjoyed letting the aggressors suffer as the hyenas whom I kill to protect your children and goats...
...Senate subcommittee's buckshot blast at high coffee prices (TIME, June 19), Latin America reacted with its loudest collective yelp in years. By accusing the latinos of rigging the coffee market and by bluntly suggesting some undiplomatic ways to force prices down aga (e.g., "scrutinizing" loan to coffee countries, encouraging production in other countries, policing the coffee trade, etc.), Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette and his colleagues had managed to wound the good neighbors' sensitive pride and threaten their pocketbooks as well...
Then, while he was in the neighborhood, the Senator fired a spray of buckshot over his shoulder at all renegade Communists. "It has become the fashion to lionize and extol the ex-Communist in America today," said he. "Ex-Communists are treated as heroes of the republic. They are rushed to forums from which to denounce good citizens who always opposed Communism, but refused to make merchandise of their patriotism...
...presses were waiting; this week thousands of Texans in & out of Wharton County were eating up Sheriff Lane's rambling, ungrammatical but engrossing tale. A low ceiling, reported Pilot Buckshot, had forced him to turn back after his take-off in the "People's Airplane," the $5,800 Stinson Station Wagon that his admiring readers and constituents bought him last year. Undaunted, Sheriff Lane switched to a car, followed a 300-mile trail to the store where he seized the stolen machines. Like an accomplished serial writer, Buckshot hoped that by the next installment he might also seize...
Five in a Row. Buckshot's detailed, homely communications to "Ed," which he started nine years ago, now appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...