Word: buckshotting
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...Calif, he would have been astounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a story called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,'' which told how Jim Smiley's frog Dan'l Webster was defeated at Angels Camp when the opposition loaded it with buckshot. In 1926 Angels Campers, grateful for their town's only fame, instituted an annual International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs to honor Mark Twain and to have fun. Last week they dedicated a Mark Twain Monument before the jumping began...
...sport has grown so that there were 150 frogs assembled, of all types, all sizes. The rules allowed the owners to place their entries on a line, say "Go!", make them hop three times. Only other rule: Each frog might be shaken to insure against the traditional buckshot...
...Mississippi. Dave Harris, black and 35, was suspected of stealing groceries from the Clayton Funderberg farm near Rosedale. Young Clayton Funderberg, 17, with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about...
...truck backing up to his home, unloading bottles. Four U. S. Prohibition agents, with a search warrant from a U. S. commissioner, went to Moore's house one evening last week. Two approached the front door, two the rear. The search warrant was exhibited. From behind closed doors buckshot poured into the warm darkness...
Generalissimo Smoot, methodical old warrior that he is, commenced to count shots (pages in the Congressional Record) fired so far. Triumphantly he announced that 666 rounds had been discharged (including canister, grape, minie-balls, buckshot and BB) from both sides of the lines. Of those, 509 had come from the Democratic and Insurgent opposition, whereas the valiant Republican troops, husbanding their ammunition, had fired only...