Word: shotgunned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain whites" who sneak in after dark and shoot deer which they blind with car headlights or with jacklights fastened on their caps. Seeing two lights weaving through the brush, the wardens crouched until the poachers were a few paces away, then challenged them. The lights went out, a shotgun blared. Warden Murchison fell, torn with buckshot. He died before reaching the hospital, 14 miles away at Alice...
...most astonishing thing about skeet is that 20% of its enthusiasts are women & children who probably would never have seen a shotgun were it not for the unique U. S. mores that deny them the privileges of golf courses on Sunday afternoons. To keep golf widows & orphans amused, many a sedate country club has erected a skeet field, developed expert marksmen out of onetime Sunday thumb-twiddlers...
...Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month. But not all the gadgets in the world could save her if she smacked the water hard enough to crack her seagoing hull-or if she caught fire while dumping...
...When he appointed the committee of nine, President Conant said that there was ample time to reopen the cases if the report warranted it. There is still time and the report most emphatically does justify a reopening, yet Dr. Conant seems satisfied with things as they are. Apparently the shotgun went off entirely by accident but managed, by pure chance, to shoot the right...
...Jacob Schiff gave him $500,000 to set up a Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Tex., to attract more Jews to the Southwest. Author O. Henry, onetime convict, kindled his interest in parole work, in which he became a U. S. leader. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led citizens in keeping order after the Galveston hurricane of 1900. At a public dinner, when addressed in Hebrew by the late Cardinal Satolli, apostolic delegate, he replied in purest ecclesiastical Latin. The U. S. Post Office department became used...