Word: shotgunned
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...highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...
...later Roen and his crew of 50 had a bad scare. An airline kinked; air began to flow unevenly. The starboard decks burst out of the water, and the hulk listed dangerously. Months of body-breaking labor hung in the balance. A fast-thinking crew member picked up a shotgun, blasted the air hose. Gently the ship settled back into the water, to be brought up again slowly and on an even keel...
...million U.S. duck shooters looked forward to the best season in years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with an eye toward crop damage from the excess stock, added ten days to the season (which opens next week in the Northern Zone). In addition, the WPB relaxed shotgun ammunition restrictions, allowing each hunter four boxes (100 shells) instead of the one box allowed last year. The hunter's problem was to get his four boxes; most dealers still had scant supplies, were doling out one box per person. It might not be such a bad year for the ducks...
Death behind the Door. Deadliest weapon with which U.S. police have to cope is the shotgun: "It seems that nearly every farmhouse in the country has a shotgun behind the kitchen door and these frequently become involved in crimes. . . ." Dr. Snyder debunks some common notions about poisons: arsenic and strychnine, for example, though often used, are very dangerous to a murderer, because their presence in the body can be detected for some time after the murder. Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons...
Backfire. In Oswego, Kans., two women fired at a Peeping Tom. He ran away but soon returned with a shotgun, hit them both...