Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wishers came from all directions. Snider, a lean, tanned 33-year-old son of the soil, took it calmly: "I ain't overly worked up about it." said he. When he was asked if his family would pose before a camera, he said: "The woman may take the shotgun...
...spring of 1948, a bushwhacker shattered Noble's right arm with a shotgun blast. On Valentine's Day, 1949, dynamite was found wired to the starter of his car. That autumn, a rifleman shot him in the leg on the highway. Two months later, his wife Mildred got into his automobile, stepped on the starter and was killed by an explosion. A month after that, a sniper hit Noble with two bullets as he was leaving his house in Dallas. Another shot whanged through the window of his hospital room. Newspapers called Noble "the man with nine lives...
...Homebody. His friends pleaded with him to leave the ranch. "This is my home," he said. "I won't be driven out of it." In a way, he even seemed to enjoy the chillingly dramatic part he was playing. The attempts on his life went on. Another shotgun blast was fired at him from the woods, but his car's armor saved him. Last March, the engine of his airplane blew up as he started...
...This type of drastic self-surgery was performed earlier in the U.S., with a shotgun, by a Maine woman who thereby cured herself of a "pyramiding depression" (TIME...
...Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled vials...