Word: buckshotting
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...Governor got a lot more than he had bargained for. Citing Coroner Hypolite Landry's report, Edwards announced that the two young blacks had been killed by buckshot that "possibly" could have come from police shotguns. Since there were what he termed obvious "discrepancies and inconsistencies" in the various accounts of the shootings, Edwards asked for an investigation by the state attorney general. The FBI also was ordered into the case. Whatever the answer was, it meant still more tension and bitterness for Southern University. Governor Edwards judiciously suspended classes until at least after the Thanksgiving holiday...
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards said yesterday that the officers involved in last Thursday's confrontation used their shotguns to fire tear gain cartridges, which he said were similar in appearance to buckshot cartridges...
Coroner Hypolyte Landry, of the Earl K. Long Hospital where the victims were taken, said yesterday that the slain men were killed either by buckshot or by shrapnel from exploding grenades or bombs...
...weapon has really exploded lately," claims Norman Simon, who owns three Manhattan umbrella stores. Catering primarily to law-abiding citizens who are reluctant to tote a handgun, Simon has since last December sold 200 steel-knobbed umbrellas and canes, 300 metal swagger sticks and 400 walking sticks weighted with buckshot...
...argument is indiscriminate-like a charge of buckshot. As Harvard Sociologist David Riesman observes: "Polemically, the term "is almost indefinitely extensible." It is also an elusive term with a sociological rather than a precise legal definition. Classically it refers to someone who is prosecuted or jailed-not for crimes in the ordinary sense of the word, but for harboring or expressing opinions antagonistic to an established order of government. There is no question that the U.S. has a long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy...