Word: shotgunned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thin Hog. First things first: got to find water. Pa is in the habit of drilling wells with a shotgun. First he walks the lawn with a forked stick. The stick goes crazy because the lawn has a buried sprinkler grid. Pa fires a load into the sod just as the gardener turns on the system. "I ain't never missed yet," crows Pa. Granny peers into the deep freeze and complains that all the vittles is froze. "People ought to know better'n to store food up against a north wall," says...
...Bulldogs also vary their formations quite a bit. Besides the wing T and the straight T, they have occasionally run from the double wing and even the shotgun formation. At times they will flank a halfback wide or split one or both their ends...
...being driven home in a Jeep with two other land-reform officials, a band of 15 or 20 masked, armed horsemen stopped the car near town and ordered the occupants to get out. "Abedi was the first one out." recalled the driver, "and they immediately cut him down with shotgun and rifle fire." Without harming the other two officials, the killers fled...
...natural hormone works like a shotgun and often has a variety of undesirable effects, stimulating the adrenal glands, for example, to produce excesses of other body-controlling hormones. The synthetic short-chain kind offers doctors the hope that it may be used to achieve a specific result in treating a specific disease. Manufactured ACTH can be used to reduce fat stores in the body and possibly to stimulate red-cell production...
...thrifty Dutch are not about to spend their liquid gold recklessly. Shell and Esso have been shepherded into a shotgun marriage w?ith The Netherlands States Mines to market the gas. and De Pous. now-dubbed "The Sheik" by wags around The Hague, is laying down stringent marketing regulations. Present plans are to reserve about 25 billion cubic feet of it for "premium'' industrial use. including the fueling of projected new aluminum and ammonia plants, and to enable Dutch householders to convert to gas furnaces and stoves...