Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized labor has grown in size and efficiency, its problems have expanded so much that they cannot be solved by a shotgun or a long heart-to-heart with an enlightened boss. Labor's problems, indeed, have grown so large that the combined exertions of a Senate Subcommittee and the AFL-CIO may not suffice. Unethical and illegal practices have had had so many years to entrench themselves in organized labor, that citations for contempt of Congress and the AFL-CIO's ethical practices code are merely a first, if difficult, step in the right direction...
...These are no casual, tomorrow-we-die marriages of convenience, or even-broadly speaking-marriages brought off at the point of a shotgun. They are authorized and supervised under stern rules that many a Stateside parent could wish for, with the U.S. Air Force playing the role of a straitlaced, old-fashioned Dutch uncle. According to regulations, the airman must have his commanding officer's permission to marry, and the British girl must prove 1) that she is legally free to marry, and 2) that she can meet the requirements of U.S. immigration, e.g., that she has no police...
...Chicago's shotgun-toting Mrs. Carola Mandel added up her year's bag of clay birds on both skeet and trap ranges, discovered that she is the first woman ever to whip all competitors, male and female, in competitive averages. Mrs. Mandel's scattergun accounted for three world records, including an average of 99.6 for 1,000 targets...
...when a long-distance telephone operator failed to place his call fast enough, John J. Brokelmeyer told her: "Come and get this phone out of my house if you can't make it work," decided to do the job himself, ripped the apparatus from the wall, grabbed his shotgun, went outside, used three shots to disconnect the wires from a nearby telephone pole...
...Final Shot. Weyer now had only to substantiate Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore...