Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grace Kelly is not required to do much more than look beautiful and vulnerable, and she accomplishes both with patrician distinction. The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits, and audiences may relish seeing Milland mowed down by superior intelligence rather than by a sawed-off shotgun...
...Annoyed by the dog's barking at night, a Tennessean had fired his shotgun into the master's bedroom...
Each company has had a phenomenal growth since the end of World War II. Olin branched out from shotgun shells, dynamite and rifles into batteries, Cellophane, fabricating metals, lumber, brass, creosoting, cigarette paper, polyethylene food bags and compressed-air coal-breaking equipment. When Nichols took it over in 1948 Mathieson was making caustic soda, liquid chlorine, nitrogen and soda ash. Nichols expanded into fertilizer, sulphuric acid, petrochemicals, insecticides and-by buying out E. R. Squibb & Sons-into drugs and Pharmaceuticals. Says John Olin confidently: "We will continue to grow...
...Alike. Using a small, 14-lb. recorder sensitive enough to handle sounds ranging from a footfall to a shotgun blast, Reed has been riding with the Culver City police for nearly a year. Some nights he gets nothing, on others, enough material for three shows...
...diplomats said, an unwillingness among those who remain to say anything out of the ordinary--an unwillingness which with time will ripen into an inability. Whether this attrition of intelligence is carried out the quiet way, through "hard" security policies run by Scott McCleods, or the McCarthy way, through shotgun charges and noise, the result is the same...