Word: gunning
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Finnegan--rarely judging or mongering a thesis--strings the adolescents' stories along the common threads he found, the underthemes and structural weaknesses of America now: the destruction of families and absence of parents, the astonishingly pervasive presence of drugs and gun violence, a sort of postmodern lostness and indiscipline. The self-absorbed fecklessness of the adults--the abdicated parents in most of these dramas, often useless druggies and alcoholics themselves--makes the reader despise them in a way he never quite hated Pap Finn...
...knife goes through the vest like a piece of paper. You can put a steel plate in the chest for a higher caliber gun than nine millimeter," Officer Derosiers explains...
...typical kid-in-a-cop-car, I ask him about his gun. It is a double-action 9 millimeter, which can fire 13 rounds per clip. Officers carry three clips, which means 39 rounds, in addition to one bullet already in the chamber...
...last thing I want to do is use that gun," Officer Derosiers says...
Harvard one-through-nine, a Murderer's Row in its own right, brings its monstrously successful run-and-gun lineup to Baton Rouge having scored 38 runs in its last four games--against Princeton and LeMoyne, ranked 20th and first nationally in ERA, respectively...