Word: buckshotting
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...Attorney General Tom Clark had, as you say, been dining on "quail full of buckshot" [TIME, Feb. 23], it would have been a neat trick...
...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
...roar of four shotguns in the hands of prison guards. Convicts scattered frantically, flopping to the ground, diving under the buildings for cover. One made the barbed-wire-topped fence before a cursing guard, kicking loose a jam in his weapon, blasted him down with a load of buckshot...
...Boss, I ain't gonna come out because if I come out I'll come out dead." Again & again Worthy yelled at him. Then it happened. Peewee dropped with a -38-cal. slug in his leg, which saved his life as the guards' pump guns poured buckshot into the other convicts...
...bosses of Big Labor had evidently been studying the signs. They had read the election returns and had seen what happened to John L. Lewis. They had sent up a trial balloon (the Nathan report) for higher wages without higher prices, and seen it riddled with buckshot by industry's sharpshooters...