Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current is nothing but a flow of electrons, it has been obvious for years that a "beta emitter" might serve as the source of energy in a battery. How to build such a battery was not so obvious. If the electrons are merely collected like spent shot from a shotgun, most of their energy is lost...
...Winner. In Louisville, after losing steadily in a poker game, James Calvert finally walked out in disgust, returned a few minutes later, pointed a shotgun at the players, made off with...
Seven days after he took office, a farmer named Joe Allen Goforth went crazy and started down the main street of a hamlet named Krum with a .22 rifle in one hand and a shotgun in the other. He fired his shotgun at a man who was painting the bank, and then ducked into a barber shop. When the new sheriff arrived, Krum residents called: "Don't go in there. He's crazy." But Hodges drew his pistol, walked up to the barber shop, and called: "This is the sheriff of Denton County. Come...
...insane man fired his shotgun through the window. The sheriff fell, blinded. After a while he felt his bloody face and called out: "I can't stay here and bleed to death. Someone lead me away, and I'll walk behind and shield him with my big backside." An insurance man took the chance, and the sheriff tottered off to safety...
There are some TIME agents who earn as much as $800 to $1,000 a year, depending upon the size of the school and how hard they work. Says Roger Chapin of Middlebury College: "The hunting rifle and shotgun hanging on the wall in my room, the skis in the corner, the camera in my desk drawer and a canoe are all byproducts of TIME sales." When summer vacation at the University of Minnesota began last year, says our subscription agent Merrill Cragun, "I bought a convertible and took my first jaunt to the East Coast as a result...