Word: shotgunned
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...spring of 1948, a bushwhacker shattered Noble's right arm with a shotgun blast. On Valentine's Day, 1949, dynamite was found wired to the starter of his car. That autumn, a rifleman shot him in the leg on the highway. Two months later, his wife Mildred got into his automobile, stepped on the starter and was killed by an explosion. A month after that, a sniper hit Noble with two bullets as he was leaving his house in Dallas. Another shot whanged through the window of his hospital room. Newspapers called Noble "the man with nine lives...
...Homebody. His friends pleaded with him to leave the ranch. "This is my home," he said. "I won't be driven out of it." In a way, he even seemed to enjoy the chillingly dramatic part he was playing. The attempts on his life went on. Another shotgun blast was fired at him from the woods, but his car's armor saved him. Last March, the engine of his airplane blew up as he started...
...This type of drastic self-surgery was performed earlier in the U.S., with a shotgun, by a Maine woman who thereby cured herself of a "pyramiding depression" (TIME...
...Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled vials...
...grocery. Now he puts in seven days a week (twelve hours weekdays, six Sundays) at his job. With two brothers and a friend, he operates two stores, one the huge Schwegmann Bros, supermarket, which he proudly calls the "largest in the world." By selling everything from crayfish to shotgun shells-and everything as cheaply as possible-the Schwegmanns will take in close to $7,000,000 this year. "If I do a good job by keeping prices low," says John Schwegmann, "the public will reward me by buying more...