Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prudently dispatched the police. When they arrived, they found Ann Woodward babbling hysterically in her bedroom. Sprawled face down in the foyer of his bedroom, across a ten-ft. hall, was the nude body of William Woodward Jr., his face mangled by a blast from a twelve-gauge shotgun. Another charge of shot had smashed into the woodwork. The shotgun lay on the floor near his body...
...smashed, and a cabana beside the swimming pool had been broken open. On the day of Mrs. Baker's party the Woodwards decided to arm themselves against future prowlers, and went to the game room to choose their weapons. From Woodward's gun collection Ann selected a shotgun, Bill a pistol (which was found in his room...
...practitioners of the sorghum and shotgun school of fiction usually start with two advantages: their general grimness, a quality of mind sympathetic to critics; the fact that they follow red clay paths already cleared for the public by William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. These advantages may make Southerner Phillips' fourth novel a success...
...many a sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
...Shotgun Watches. Just 14 hours behind the white ketch, the 75-ft. schooner Constellation crossed the line. She had carried a spinnaker all the way-a tricky test for her helmsmen. They had to fight the wheel so hard to keep the big-bellied sail full that sometimes, with two men working at once, they could stand only 15-minute "shotgun" watches without relief. On corrected time, no boat seemed to have a chance to catch the Constellation, and Dutch Captain Frank Hooykaas did a happy jig of victory...