Word: shot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring a Denver bartender named Lloyd ("Red") Barker was shot and killed by his wife. Local newspapers first carried it as a routine homicide, then speculated that the victim might be the last of the four notorious Barker brothers who, with their gangster mother, terrorized the Midwest in the '30s. Barren Beshoar, chief of our Denver news bureau, set out to find...
Meanwhile, though he continued to live like a little shot in a lower-middle-brow home in McLean, Va., he began to act more & more like a big operator and a man who knows the right people. As a result, the Senate's special investigations subcommittee called him in to ask him if he was causing the republic any harm...
...When held in position, the bell-shaped casing (covering a slim barrel within) insures that the bullet will enter at the proper angle, even if the horse moves-and that one shot will be enough...
...telephone, the word came from Trainer Hirsch and Owner Bob Kleberg. The vet placed the bell-shaped horse gun on Air Lift's forehead, fired the shot.* The colt toppled over on his side. The stable hands who stood around could think of nothing much to say. They had seen horses die before-but few with as much promise as Air Lift...
Last November's elections were a big shot in the arm for Coar's project. When the dust had settled, it was speedily noted that not one of the Republicans defeated at the polls had used Coar's service. Now the new Democrats and the surviving Republicans are keeping the microphones so busy that the studio wiped out its $10,000 deficit in June and grossed about $13,000 last month...