Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With only $25 in his wallet -- earnings from mowing a few lawns -- he quickly settled on a used Remington semiautomatic 12-gauge shotgun. He was pleasantly surprised by its heft as he slid it into a canvas bag and scurried back to his truck. At 16, Doug was finally a force to be reckoned with at Father Flanagan High, in his white, working-class neighborhood of Benson and on the streets of Omaha. "If you have a gun, you have power. That's just the way it is," he says. "Guns are just a part of growing up these days...
...fourth floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, where Moynihan dwells at one end and Oklahoma's bumptious David Boren resides at the other. The round of frantic conferences began among the Finance Committee's Democrats and White House handlers. The White House designated Secretary Bentsen to ride shotgun on Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really more in sympathy with Moynihan than with his Administration. The question remained, to use the words of a powerful lobbyist...
...that Bobby needed time to adjust. Martha's common-law husband Calvin Morris decided to "bring Bobby along." "They were good friends," says Martha. Morris bought Bobby clothes and took care of him. But on Sept. 17, 1975, Bobby Shaw shot and killed Calvin Morris with a 20-gauge shotgun. Rushing to the scene, Bobby's older brother Vancell asked him what had happened. "I don't know," Bobby said. And then he asked Vancell for cigarettes...
Hani's murder comes at a delicate moment in South Africa's ever painful attempt to remake itself into a multiracial democracy. In a Zulu village near Port Shepstone in southern Natal province, 10 young A.N.C. members were slaughtered last week in a savage hand-grenade, shotgun and machete attack, despite a peace pact between A.N.C. and Inkatha Freedom Party representatives just a week before. Elsewhere, police and military forces were on alert for possible Easter-weekend attacks on whites by the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the black-power group the Pan-Africanist Congress. Political...
...unanimously -- not to overturn the ban. What had changed? Citizens swamped lawmakers' offices with calls supporting the ban after Florio stumped the state, appealing to voters to voice their feelings about such weapons: pistols that whip off 10 shots or more from a single clip or the rapid-fire shotgun that drug dealers like to call "street sweepers...