Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal sense, it was four young, white Florida Tobacco Readers who were on trial last week in a sweltering Tallahassee courtroom. They were charged with abducting a 19-year-old coed at Florida A. & M. University (for Negroes), forcing her at shotgun and knifepoint into a lonely stand of pines and blackjack oaks and between them, raping her seven times. But in a broader and more important sense, the Southern, segregated State of Florida was being tested in its ability to render equal justice under the law. Florida passed the test with dignity and a fine regard...
...Titusville, Pa., a for-sale ad in the Herald offered wool blankets, furniture, a shotgun, a wedding ring...
Fact is, as the Telegraph suggested, that the postwar alliance between Britain and West Germany has been at best "a shotgun marriage" imposed by the Soviet threat. Adenauer himself has never forgotten that British occupation authorities fired him as mayor of Cologne in 1945 for "insufficient display of energy." And when Harold Macmillan failed to consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position...
...farmer, shotgun in hand, approaches his chicken house to rout a suspected thief. He stumbles, the gun goes off-killing all the hens...
...proclaims that the corporal is under Cliché No. 8, house arrest, a condition which, as every collector of cinematic clichés will readily foresee, inevitably leads to No. 9: the scandalous pregnancy of the screen queen, Cliché No. 10 and triumphant conclusion: the corporal's shotgun wedding to the psychologist...