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...stuff had gone flashing through those frail wooden walls like buckshot through a berry crate. Some of it had even sliced through the walls and partitions and come out on the far side. The mosquito net above my bed was ripped in a dozen places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On Leyte | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

They published this side by side with the official police photo-a puffy, bloody, battered face (see cuts). The Civil Liberties Committee rounded up Brinkley and two others arrested with Melendes-a pert little whore named Wanita Johnson and a soldier named Private Edward Buckshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Whitewash in St. Louis | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...Theater managers found audiences the rowdiest in their memory: they howled, hissed and booed at pictures, demanded Westerns, carved their initials on seats, sometimes even fired buckshot at the screen. War workers brought alarm clocks, set them to go off when they had to leave for work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boom | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...later years Belle ran a bandit headquarters at a place she called Younger's Bend, in Indian territory. Near there, in 1889, someone fired a load of buckshot into her back while she was riding. She was buried with her jewels and one of her precious pistols, which were afterward stolen by grave robbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Petticoat Terror | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Democrats. Vag laughed. Mike had come from some place like the Tennessee back country, most likely, where they still talked about Andy Jackson and the way he cleaned things up in Washington when he was elected. In Tennessee a fellow who didn't own a big spread of buckshot land and had to scratch along in the pines some-where didn't see things just the same way as a Virginia Whig. So Mike Fink was a Democrat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

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