Word: shotgunned
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...gooks are everywhere, the gooks are here! Kill them! Kill them!" With this terrible bellow, Viet Nam Veteran John R. Coughlin, 33, began firing his sawed-off shotgun at the Quincy, Mass., police station from the veterans' section of the town cemetery only 100 feet away. Police quickly ringed the thrice-decorated ex-Marine at a safe distance, but, recognizing they were dealing with a crazed man, held their fire. Imaginatively, the police shouted back and forth with their own improvised military jargon: "A Company is located over there. B Company has been pulled back. C Company will move...
Kill me! I will not give up my weapon." He fired his shotgun into the air and ran. Finally, he smashed the gun against the cemetery gate before being subdued...
...ideas. Quintet is built around a vintage sci-fi gambit that only a few years ago turned up in an execrable action movie, Roller ball. Here again, we are in the midst of a futuristic society that worships a deadly game with indecipherable rules. Quintet appears to be a shotgun marriage between backgammon and Russian roulette. The hero (Paul Newman instead of James Caan) is trying to beat the game before he becomes its bloodied victim. Yet the plot is so familiar that the audience figures out the moves at least an hour before the characters do. By the time...
...trade: the index finger on his throwing hand still shows the marks of off-season surgery, and the little finger on the same hand zigs at right angles from one fracture, then zags back again from a second break. It is these hands that will load the Dallas shotgun against a Pittsburgh defense that is skilled at masking its strategy with fake formations until the play is underway...
...weeks later, a helicopter flew in low over a cornfield near Oxford and landed on the courthouse mall. A squad shotgun-toting U.S. marshals and state troopers hustled Bruce Johnston Jr. to the courthouse, where he testified at a preliminary hearing against his father and Leslie Dale. Afterward, the federal marshals took Little Bruce to a secret hideaway for safekeeping...