Word: shotgunned
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...Covington built a fort, stole black powder, and shot nails and gravel at the kids from Newport across the Licking River. The Newport boys stole revolvers and shot at the kids from Covington when they went swimming. One of Dan's friends shot a Newport boy with a shotgun load of nails and gravel. "We did not understand," said Dan Beard, ". . . why it was wrong for the boys to fight when all the men of the nation were fighting...
...that the documents planted in her luggage ought to succeed in trapping a ring of Nazi spies operating in Lisbon. They not only trap the spies but also ruin the loving couple's tryst. Whereupon, Miss Carroll and Mr. MacMurray, with the entire British Navy serving as shotgun, take off for the U.S. and marriage...
...boarded-up summer resort where frame cottages stood cold and bleak in the New Jersey woods. They broke a window in one, hid until dark, ransacked others that night. Now they were well fixed. They found canned food, soup, beans, four .22-calibre rifles, one .410-gauge single-barreled shotgun, one 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun, one 1885 Army rifle, one hatchet, one bayonet, five daggers, two ammunition belts and some 500 rounds of ammunition for the different guns...
...price of copper was stable at around 12? a pound. It was the lowest level at which U. S. copper producers have ever been sold out. Reason for their moderation at the banquet table is one of the major phenomena of U. S. national unity-a shotgun wedding between the Defense Commission and big-time coppermen. Cooperating with Commissioners Henderson (prices) and Stettinius (materials), coppermen had accepted the New Deal program on prices-i.e., kept them down. But the remarkable extent of their cooperation became evident only this week...
...opposed to Communist union control, who would not let bitterness alone prevent healing the breach between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. This was considerable, despite Murray's first words as president ("I protest the use of Government pressure to force a shotgun agreement between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L."), despite his announcing that his first job was an immediate organizing drive in "Little Steel" and Ford. The show over, John L. Lewis clapped on his grey sombrero, lit one of his endless cigars, and lumbered home to read Shakespeare, satisfied that...