Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine months later, as Dr. Hamilton limped downstairs (his right foot had never recovered from an infection incurred during his World War II military service) to try out a shotgun in his basement range, the weapon went off, shredding his bad right foot. It was amputated later that day, and in less than four months, Dr. Hamilton received his tax-free $400,000. It was one of the largest personal-injury indemnities ever paid...
...uncle" has come to stay with mother. Biggest single reason for the uncle marriages: the woman (usually a war widow) can go on collecting her state pension so long as she is legally single; if she remarries, her pension is forfeited. ¶ West Germany celebrates a high percentage of shotgun weddings. "Above all," said one man in delicately explaining Wiirmeling's job, "he wants to root out conditions that made the seventh month of marriage the most usual one for the birth of the first child...
...farm hand Roger Hilton, 28, born in industrial Lancashire, was new to the Gloucestershire countryside and its tradition-swathed hunters. When he saw a fox slinking toward his master's chicken house one day last week, Roger took up a shotgun and blasted the beast. Before the echoes died away, there was a clatter of hoofs, a clamor of hounds, and up rode the local hunt. The hunters stared aghast at Roger's atrocity. They were speechless. Not so Roger's employer...
...bomb which caused Stout's injury was a prank devised by him and several of his friends in preparation for the Smoker celebration. It consisted of an empty beer can filled with a quantity of black gunpowder that had been emptied from some 23 shotgun shells. The constructors did not buy a mechanical detonator to set the explosive off, but planned instead to make their own fuse out of some extra gunpowder...
...shooting holiday. Five minutes after he arrived, on the afternoon of Lincoln's birthday, Ike was togged out in a natty corduroy cap, green windbreaker, whipcord jodhpurs and (as a protection against the locally prevalent rattlesnakes) sturdy natural-leather boots. Under his right arm, the President carried two shotguns, which he had carefully selected from his own collection: a standard 20-gauge double-barreled shotgun and his favorite, a small .410 "over and under...