Word: shotgunned
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...highway. "Ja-ames Meredith! Ja-ames Meredith!" he cried. "I only want Ja-ames Meredith!" Meredith's companions scrambled for cover, stumbling over one another. "Look out, Jim, he's got a gun!" cried one. "Hit the dirt!" called an other. Startled, Meredith hesitated. A 16-gauge shotgun roared once, and a spray of bird shot blasted into Meredith's right side. He fell to his knees and began to wriggle across the highway. Twice more the gunman fired. One load missed; the other hit Meredith, who lay groaning: "Oh, my God, is anyone going to help...
...author of Two Hours to Doom, the 1958 book from which the movie Dr. Strangelove was taken, a onetime R.A.F. navigator who wrote the original as a deadly serious account of nuclear war by accident, then helped Producer Stanley Kubrick turn it into satire; by his own hand (shotgun); in Sussex, England...
...higher echelons. As the $13,000-a-year secretary of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers' San Francisco Local 4-biggest in the U.S.-he commanded the unwavering allegiance of nearly all 2,600 local members. Wilson, 40, was parted from that job on April 5, when shotgun blasts tore into his chest and shattered his skull...
Wilson's assassination prompted outraged demands for an investigation of the painters' international leadership. The outcry was redoubled this month when Lloyd Green, 45, a Wilson ally from the nearby Alameda County local, was killed by a shotgun blast hours after his men had rejected a dues increase ordered by Raftery's headquarters...
...Marine Corps drill instructor (he won a Silver Star on Iwo Jima), Lawyer Ickes speaks six languages, has been a Davies lieutenant ever since Davies took him on as general counsel for his American Independent Oil Co. in 1950. The two work together like the barrels of a shotgun-as is only natural. It was F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Raymond's father, who picked Davies to be wartime Deputy Petroleum Coordinator when he was a vice president of Standard Oil of California. In part because Davies had so faithfully served the old oil-industry scourge...