Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then I met Jane. One day she said she was going to have my child. Her brothers were hunting me with hide whips. I was real worried. So I married her, just one week before my divorce from my first wife. It was a shotgun wedding without shotguns. I never married Jane properly, and though she divorced me, she didn't need to. She was never my wife...
...makes them dirtier." The Defense Department denied it. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss resented it. President Eisenhower said at his news conference: "We have looked constantly to cleaner bombs so that you could have a more local and advantageous use of the nuclear weapon rather than just a shotgun method...
...Jennie, "fresh and sparkling as a rosebud," her "lovely petals protected by a thorn." With a slight tightening of the lips (and Kissel's shotgun), she can down eight brace of prairie plover in seven shots (five doubles and two triples). Has a "neat, graceful competence" in scalping Indians. Fond of husbands, but is apt to have them shot out from under...
...Thomasville did he venture forth to go quail hunting. He was so gruff with newsmen who came out to see him ("It's really something when you have to make this a news event to write about") that they wrote waspishly of his carelessness with his 20-gauge shotgun. A welltrained man with small arms, he gestured with his piece without seeming to bother about where it pointed, sat in the hunting car with his hand over its muzzle...
Household Goods. In Milwaukee, a for-sale ad in the Journal read: "Washer; wringer; new encyclopedia; shotgun; wedding dress...