Word: pellet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college or university shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year or both. For the purpose of this paragraph "firearm" shall mean any pistol, revolver, rifle or smoothbore arm from which a shot, bullet or pellet can be discharged by whatever means...
...Clouts Pellet...
...When Reasoner called the phone company to complain about digit dialing, the response made him fume: "They've got that defense in depth, whereby the first three people you talk to know only one phrase each, like a chimp trained to press a lever for a banana-flavored pellet...
Just before the door to the octagonal, green gas chamber in California's San Quentin prison clanged shut, the condemned man twisted toward the witnesses. Straining against the eight thick straps that bound him to a chair, he cried: "I am Jesus Christ!" Moments later, a pellet of potassium cyanide was dropped into a solution of dilute sulfuric acid, and blowers began sucking the lethal gas upward. Within twelve minutes, Aaron Mitchell, 37, who was convicted of slaying a Sacramento policeman during a 1963 tavern holdup, was dead. He was the first man to be executed in California...
Death Was Temporary. Meredith, blood oozing from some 70 pellet wounds in head and body, was whisked to Memphis in an ambulance. Because of a ludicrous series of gaffes by the Associated Press, millions of shocked Americans thought Meredith had been killed (see PRESS). As doctors at Memphis' William F. Bowld Hospital soon discovered, he was only suffering from "multiple superficial abrasions...