Word: shotgunned
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Twice daily, passenger trains-with heavily armed troops riding shotgun -puff along in each direction. In Danang, about 3,000 of the city's refugees and unemployed have been hired by the government at 650 per day to help rebuild the city. Identified by their powder blue vests, they lay new sidewalks, clean drains, and will plant some 300,000 trees along the beaches...
...week he seemed not at all troubled. Those who sat near him that day said he laughed and joked, much as he usually did. The next day, however, Mills was found sprawled in the doorway of a barn about a mile from his home in Easton. A 12-gauge shotgun lay on the floor near by. Mills had been shot once in the chest, an apparent suicide...
Professional politicians, most Americans assume, are at worst corrupt. Sheed thinks most of them are crazy. He may well be right, but the political novel isn't suited to expound such a far-reaching thesis. As a result, Sheed's book seems like a shotgun marriage of escapism and pretentious character analysis...
...tried to influence the political thinking of his students." It is much easier to believe a group of prominent lawyers who carefully studied Furry's prominent lawyers who carefully studied Furry's actions and questioned his students and colleagues for four months, than a Senator with a reputation for shotgun charges, who asked Furry questions for thirty minutes...
...campaign has been turbulent. A third-generation miner who speaks in a soft, hoarse voice and suffers from the dreaded "black lung" disease of the pits, Candidate Miller, 50, carries a big stick-specifically, a shotgun beneath the seat of his car. He never hits the campaign trail without an armed bodyguard, while he ventures into pro-Boyle precincts that Yablonski stayed away from. He means to come back alive, which is why he keeps his schedule a secret. "They are not going to know where I'll be," Miller says, "and I won't be where they...