Word: shotgunful
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...that endows a shrewd financier with the halo of a gold-dispensing. Maecenas only too often gives a successful murderer all the attributes of a Nietzschean superman. And the American university would often be just as logical in giving an honorary degree to the wizard with a sawed-off shotgun as it is in bestowing its academic laurels on a merchant prince. That public opinion is a shallow wench whose favors are as easily won with gold as with merit is a platitude which American universities have too often failed to appreciate...
...second-biggest handgun maker in the U.S., last week acknowledged it recently named James Minder, 74, chairman of the board without knowing he had spent 15 years in Michigan prisons for a string of armed robberies and an attempted prison break. Although his days as a sawed-off-shotgun-toting college student are long gone--he has had a clean record since 1969--by law Minder can't own or even handle a firearm. Asked why he didn't disclose his past to Smith & Wesson earlier, he said, "Nobody asked...
...Jack and Mary Grace, three apiece, were electric with anticipation. Lucille, age withheld, and our nanny Wendy, eternally youthful, were happy if anxious. I, a newly minted AARP member - hey, I?m not proud; it saved me a c-note on my Orlando minivan booking - was riding shotgun to K.T., and was, let us say, glad for the others. As we crossed the GW Bridge en route to Newark Airport, unsuccessful in our attempts to spot the Little Red Lighthouse but drawing oohs and aahs when we described the Manhattan skyline (Jack: ?The Vampire State Building??), I found myself achieving...
...passenger van, bigger than [the van on the screen]. Shit! Our house is definitely not as big as that.” In diplomatic affairs, he says age generally took precedence over all else. “The oldest one at the moment would get to ride shotgun, etc. But even then, you never know who’s going to be the oldest at any given time...
...passenger van, bigger than [the van on the screen]. Shit! Our house is definitely not as big as that.” In diplomatic affairs, he says age generally took precedence over all else. “The oldest one at the moment would get to ride shotgun, etc. But even then, you never know who’s going to be the oldest at any given time...