Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shotgun Marriage. In 1951, while he was still at the Treasury, Bill Martin was handed the job of dissolving a shotgun marriage of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. The Fed had been stripped of most money-regulating powers in 1941, when the U.S. entered World War II. Anxious to finance the war at low interest, the Government froze the discount rate at i%, suspended the FRB's right to alter reserve requirements, and harnessed it to an agreement to support, at par, Treasury securities, which supplied 60% of the cost of fighting...
Saturation Attack. Near Hailey, Idaho, miffed because a rat was chewing up a saddle he kept in a barn, Arne Friestad let fly with a shotgun, demolished the rat-and also the barn when pellets struck a nearby box of dynamite...
Richter, never in trouble before, decided in his desperation to rob a bank. He stole a set of license tags, bought a shotgun and sawed it off, drove 70 miles to Ulen, Minn., a town he had never seen. In raincoat and hat bought as a disguise, he tramped into the tiny Northwestern State Bank twice to case it, nervously returned a third time with the shotgun. He ordered Assistant Cashier Paul Ormbreck to stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty...
Border Incident. In Santa Susana, Calif., Cafe Proprietor Irene Sundberg, suing her landlady for $7,000 damages, testified that she had cut off the restaurant's water supply, let air out of customers' tires, fired at them with a shotgun, erected a fence preventing access to a butane tank that serves the cafe's cooking stove...
...novelist. The soldier, Andreas, is a kind of displaced poet in uniform. From the moment his leave-train begins puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny's shotgun weddings. As the car wheels click, he blows a mental farewell kiss to a field of flowers, a scrap of music, a patch of sky. In Author Böll's deftly understated handling, all that might be mawkishly sentimental in Andreas' goodbye to life develops instead...