Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a hunter who squats in his blind and watches the sky for ducks. When he glimpses one over his shoulder, he springs to his feet and trains his gun. The Skysweeper sees better than any human hunter, and it swings its ten-ton mass as nimbly as a shotgun...
...Alexis St. Martin, a French-Canadian voyageur, took a shotgun blast in the abdomen at Fort Mackinac in 1822, but his life was saved by Army Surgeon William Beaumont. A small opening in St. Martin's abdominal wall and stomach remained, and through it, over many years, Beaumont made hundreds of observations on stomach functions...
...that he had double-crossed them, set out to avenge his temporary kidnaping at the hands of Smith & Co. Four of them led by John ("Cockeye") Dunn (since electrocuted for murder), pulled alongside Smith in a car at Pier 72 and punctured him with one pistol bullet and eight shotgun slugs. The anti-Dunn Jersey mob, grateful for their furs, took the wounded man in, got him patched up by a doctor, and sent him to Cliffside Park, N.J. to recuperate. According to Smith's testimony, Cliffside's Chief of Police Frank Borelli assured him of protection...
Hunter or Hunted? In Gonzales, Texas, Robert Lee Brothers ran a baffled lost & found notice in the local newspaper: "The hunter who left his shoes and shotgun in a creek bed in the George Barfield pasture can reclaim said articles if he tells me, if possible, what he was after or what was after...
During those bloody, brawling years, Reuther collected two bad beatings and a crippled right arm, the result of an attempted assassination by shotgun. He also developed his talent for bare-knuckle politics, a shrewd publicity sense, and a reputation for brash, effective repartee. (Two weeks ago, when President-elect Eisenhower informed C.I.O. leaders that as a boy he had put in many a twelve-hour workday, Reuther was ready with a quick comeback. "General," said he, "you should have joined the union...