Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his dramatic call of a special session on "Turnip Day" 1948, but the situation is quite different in 1952. There is no Republican 80th Congress to blame for all the things that have gone wrong; the Democrats have had a clear majority for four years. Because of the shotgun reconciliation at Chicago, the Truman Democrats cannot gracefully belabor their much-whipped boy, the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition. The Southern Democrats are back in the family, and one of them is even on the ticket...
...night last week, Roe's career ended; as he was unlocking his car on the street outside his apartment, a voice called, "Roe!" He turned and was hit by three twelve-gauge shotgun slugs. Ted was laid out in a $3,500 casket, and got the biggest Negro funeral in the Midwest since Prizefighter Jack Johnson was sent to his reward under a bee's paradise of floral offerings in 1946. At Roe's funeral, Minister Clarence H. Cobb said: "He was a friend of man, and he had a pure heart...
That confidence, and the enormous in crease in the nation's prescription business (up 350% in the last ten years), reflect a revolution in U.S. medicine. In stead of writing a shotgun formula requiring half a dozen ingredients,* a doctor can now prescribe a single-bullet remedy, neatly packaged in advance, its purity guaranteed by the maker. Two-thirds of the drugs most commonly prescribed to day did not even exist 20 years ago. In place of the citrates and tartrates, the nux vomica and monkshood of an earlier day, the druggists' rows of glass-stoppered bottles...
...Shotgun Plot. Yet only in its core is it a gentle play. Coarse comic moods ripple its surface, and its three leading characters are emotional cripples. Pig-eyed Phil
...stretches them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going to sell the farm out from under them, and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only...