Word: shotgunned
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Riddled with Slugs. Ma had her lover riddled with slugs and dumped into Webster Lake, Minn., because she thought he had tipped off the cops to one of their hideouts. She had George ("Shotgun George") Zeigler murdered in Cicero, Ill., Al Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
...skinny, hysterical divorcee named Jennie Wynne. One morning two weeks ago, Jennie took one of her spells and Lloyd begged off work to take care of her. She met him inside the door of their trim, white cottage and blasted his head half off with a 20-gauge shotgun. Last week Charlie Klein closed up the restaurant and some 50 people went out to Brighton for the funeral of the only one of Ma's boys who ever did an honest day's work...
...Purpose. In Yukon, Okla., Leslie West advertised for sale: "12gauge shotgun . . . ideal for squirrels, rabbits, weddings...
Arrowsmith Adverse. Aaron's father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...
...strife which sounded like a metropolitan replay of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Her manufacturer husband, Robert P. Lord, had armed men to bar her from their apartment, she said, so she had gathered up a squad of private detectives, recaptured the place and held it with a crew of shotgun-packing guards for eleven weeks...