Word: shotgun
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...Despite their optimism, Territorians have been prodded by the week's events to reflect on their home, and the vulnerability that comes with isolation. Dangling a shotgun as he waves down vehicles for inspection, a young policeman says this kind of violence is rare. But before motioning the next vehicle on, he adds a chilling caveat: "Now you wonder, though, how often murder does go on and we don't know about...
...part of Hunter's life that would change most drastically, however, was the one belonging to his other persona--Shotgun Shane Sawyer, professional wrestler on the western Carolina circuits, which fall a long step below the World Wrestling Federation follies featured on TV. As he lay in his Duke hospital bed, Hunter, as Shotgun, promised surgeon Tuttle that he would not only one day wrestle again but also personally subject her to one of wrestling's more flamboyant moves, the overhead, body-rotating Airplane Spin...
...according to Sheriff Jarvis, ran into the house yelling "Get the guns!" The kids set the dogs loose, and the deputy left to avoid a confrontation. Most of the McGuckins remained in the house for the rest of the week, with their dogs about them, with a shotgun, rifles and handguns beside them, with 200 lbs. of food--a recent pickup from a food bank--to sustain them, even as a Pacific front brought rain, strong winds and thunder, ripping branches off trees and chasing sailboats off the lake. The police kept their distance, mindful of the mishandling...
...arsenal of weapons in 1998, has severed contact with him. Mitchell told his mother that his father said to him on the phone, "You're the reason I quit praying" and hung up. After T.J. Solomon of Conyers, Ga., shot and wounded six classmates with a sawed-off shotgun in 1999, his mother demanded to know why he hadn't blasted himself. "You were going to kill yourself, I understand. How did that not happen?" she asked him just after his arrest. "I don't understand how you took innocent children, but you were too afraid to do anything...
...Allen, a mother of two visiting York from South Carolina, was in the back seat of the car and offered to help the terrified driver. When she got out to wave the crowd off, to tell them not to open fire, she was hit in the chest by a shotgun blast. Then more than 100 rounds of bullets were fired...