Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tourist, there is an average temperature of 76°, fresh water aplenty (if that's what he wants), miles of beaches and a swash buckling past peopled by buccaneers and Prohibition rumrunners. Even to day, one Freeport beer baron still uses his old Chicago sobriquet, "Shotgun John." For the industrialist, there is total exemption from corporate, personal and export taxes, and the kind of environment to attract executive talent...
...Charles. This pied-noir illogic reached all the way to Paris' Quai d'Orsay, where foreign-office officials helped spread the rumor. Last week the anti-American feeling coalesced into violence. A Simca-load of colons cruised past the U.S. embassy in Libreville, peppered the building with shotgun fire. An hour later a bomb exploded in the garden...
...Shotgun Semester. U.S. officials hastily huddled with Junta Boss General Nguyen Khanh, who had worries of his own; a flurry of rumors suggested that army rivals were plotting to overthrow his regime. Saigon police began a district-by-district sweep through the capital, rounded up more than 100 suspected Viet Cong collaborators. But it was doubtful that the Saigon government, its once efficient security police debilitated by endless reorganization, could guarantee the protection of Americans should the Viet Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions...
...power began in December 1962, when Marketeer Domenico Italiano, 65, known as Il Papa, died peacefully in bed. One strong contender for the job of Mr. Big was eliminated four months later when Vincenzo Angilletta was ambushed outside his home and blasted to death by both barrels of a shotgun. Last November, Domenico Demarie, 41, got the same treatment, but he survived as a sick and frightened man who swears he has no idea who attacked him or why. Fortnight ago, Vincent Muratore, 43, rose before dawn to go to his wholesale produce stall at the market...
...European immigrants who have poured into postwar Australia, fully 260,000 have been Italians, mostly from Calabria and Sicily. The newcomers added much that is welcome Down Under, from pizza and pasta to espresso bars and truck gardens. But as Melbourne last week was shaken by the shotgun explosions of gang warfare, Australians became aware that the new Italian immigrants had also brought with them the blood feuds of the Mafia and Camorra, as well as the code of silence induced by omerta (death for informers...