Word: shotgunned
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...taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary campaigns, racial violence popped out like the pox: night riders prowled the state, there were shotgun incidents in Dallas, Leesburg and Dawson, and two Negro churches were burned to the ground...
...drug thalidomide and the prospect of a hideously deformed child being born as a result of its use should be more than adequate justification for legal abortion−but there are other equally good reasons: many young lives have been wrecked because sexually overzealous youths were forced into "shotgun" marriages at an early age as a result of unwanted pregnancy; many much younger lives have been ruined when children of tender ages have found that they are not really wanted in homes where their birth was an "accident." To liberalize abortion laws would not be to encourage immorality but would...
...member of the cadet branch of the county's first families (the Edmondses and McCaslins), but its proud chauffeur is Boon Hogganbeck, the childlike, "tough, faithful, brave and completely unreliable" part Indian who be came famous in The Bear for not being able to hit anything with a shotgun, rifle or weapon of any kind...
...Shotgun on Main Street. Bill Ogle sees no paradox in the fact that he can be coldly analytical about the bomb, yet apprehensive about the world that the bomb is creating. "You may not be sure that what your country is doing is right in the long run," he explains. "But nevertheless you do what your country wants done." As a scientist with the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory since getting his doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois in 1944, Ogle has participated in every atomic test series since 1945, has witnessed more than...
...betrayed him. Rather than allow it to betray him further, he, who had given what he once described as the gift of death to so many living creatures in his lifetime, loaded the weapon he held and then leaned forward as he placed the stock of his favorite shotgun on the floor of the foyer, and found a way to trip the cocked hammers...