Word: shotgunned
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...month since a shotgun blast shattered his right arm, U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther had been living in a quiet, antiseptic nightmare. In Detroit's new Grace Hospital he lay with the upper part of his body in a plaster cast, his bad arm held aloft by cords and pulleys. Occasionally he was given electric shocks to keep the arm from stiffening. He slept less than two hours in 24-his pain was continuous and doctors were afraid that sedatives might hamper his recovery...
...Reuther himself could not guess who had pulled the shotgun's trigger. Said he: "It could have been management, a Communist, a Fascist or a screwball. I can't put them in any order...
...dutiful adherence to habit almost killed him-somebody was waiting with a shotgun in the darkness outside the window...
After the first two days, the halfway mark, Kehoe's greys had won seven fights without losing one. Their owner chortled gleefully from his wheel chair: "The way they're dropping you'd think I was using a shotgun on them." A man from Tennessee, allowing that Kehoe was right, said to a man from North Carolina: "There's something that old man's got onto...
...THIS COMMUNITY. ARTICULATE MINORITY OF FACULTY RESENTS ANY ADMINISTRATOR WHOM THEY CANNOT CONTROL. . . . THIS OLD GUARD FACULTY OLIGARCHY DOMINATED UNIVERSITY BEFORE DOCTOR WERNETTE'S ARRIVAL, SO HE HAD TWO STRIKES ON HIM FROM START. THE UNANIMITY OF OPINION EXPRESSED IN DEAN'S TELEGRAM TO YOU SUGGESTS A SHOTGUN WEDDING...