Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robber forced Captive Madden into his car. But Madden was hit by shotgun pellets, and his tires were flattened by bullets. The holdup man leaped out, dodged to a pickup truck in a hail of lead, got into it and drove it into a ditch. He fell out, bleeding from two serious wounds and peppered with innumerable shotgun pellets, ran 20 yds. and surrendered to a deputy sheriff...
...Warnings on Klan stationery were sent to many: one woman was told that there was only one man, specifically named, that she was to go out with. If she went out with anybody else, "steps would be taken." It got so, around Tabor City, that everyone polished up his shotgun, and the question "Have you been kluxed?" became understandable English language...
King George chose to live as normally as possible. On the last day of his life he was out shooting hares. Although the King used special shells to reduce recoil, his weakened frame still had to take the repeated kick of a shotgun. There is no reason to believe that this hastened his death. During the night, as might have happened any other night in recent years, the blood slowed down in one of the King's hardened (and narrowed) coronary arteries. As it slowed, it thickened. Finally, it formed a large clot, and the King's life...
...next night there was more hooliganism. One band of hoodlums appeared on the lawn of a two-family Negro house, planted another cross and set it ablaze. Then they moved on to the home of Negro Dentist James C. Wallace Jr. and blasted away at his house with a shotgun. The next night, a bullet zinged through a window of Dentist W. A. Fingal's house. About the same time, a dynamite bomb exploded in Negro Physician Urbane F. Bass's backyard. Another bomb was tossed in front of the tire shop belonging to Vice President Henry Dyson...
...trail from Texas-the Chisholm Trail, named for the half-breed Cherokee trader who marked it out, Jesse Chisholm. It was in Abilene, moreover, that Wild Bill Hickok, the famed scout and gunfighter, roamed the main street as town marshal with a pair of pistols and a sawed-off shotgun...