Word: shotgunned
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...Titusville, Pa., a for-sale ad in the Herald offered wool blankets, furniture, a shotgun, a wedding ring...
Fact is, as the Telegraph suggested, that the postwar alliance between Britain and West Germany has been at best "a shotgun marriage" imposed by the Soviet threat. Adenauer himself has never forgotten that British occupation authorities fired him as mayor of Cologne in 1945 for "insufficient display of energy." And when Harold Macmillan failed to consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position...
...farmer, shotgun in hand, approaches his chicken house to rout a suspected thief. He stumbles, the gun goes off-killing all the hens...
...proclaims that the corporal is under Cliché No. 8, house arrest, a condition which, as every collector of cinematic clichés will readily foresee, inevitably leads to No. 9: the scandalous pregnancy of the screen queen, Cliché No. 10 and triumphant conclusion: the corporal's shotgun wedding to the psychologist...
...dawn on July 26. 1953, Fidel Castro led a column of 13 cars to the walls of Santiago's bristling Moncada barracks, a yellow stone pile where 1,000 Batista troops lay sleeping. A suspicious Jeep patrol came up. Castro, then 26, stepped out, raised his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his first man. "That was the mistake," he recalls. "I had told them all to do what I did, and they all opened fire." The attack was stopped cold; Batista's cops rounded up and shot 75 of Castro's men. Intervention by church friends...