Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FLANKED BY 200 OTHER POLICE AND FBI AGENTS, INcluding a shotgun-toting swat team -- and TV camera crews, to be sure -- police chief Daryl Gates elatedly joined in the arrest of three suspects wanted for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny at the outset of the Los Angeles riots. Leading the 2 a.m. raid into South Central with flak jacket and side arm, Gates personally collared one of the suspects, Damian Williams, whose nickname is "Football," and escorted him into a squad car. "Chief Gates, you're going!" Williams told the retiring police chief, according to what Gates recounted...
...white truck driver who made the mistake of stopping at a red light in the neighborhood where the first riot erupted. At least five black men pulled Denny from his sand truck, bashed him with the vehicle's fire extinguisher, punched him and stole his wallet. Another fired a shotgun into him at close range. As a blood-soaked Denny called for help, he was hit with beer bottles and karate-kicked in the head. The whole macabre scene, like a mirror-image replay of the King beating, was broadcast live on a local TV station. Denny was eventually rescued...
...just like them." And cable executives discovered what they had already suspected -- that, in Werner's words, "a country music fan is not over 60 and does not wear bib overalls, drink Lone Star beer from a long-stemmed bottle and drive a 20-year-old pickup with a shotgun rack in the back...
Armed with Saturday Night Live clips and shotgun witticisms, Alan S. Franken '73 spoke to a packed crowd on political humor at the Institute of Politics last night...
...once Turner had resigned himself to the company's shotgun marriage, it came almost as a relief: it forced stability on Turner just as he was growing weary of his own high-wire act. "One of the first things he said to me," says Fonda, "was, 'I feel like I'm constantly at war, always fighting to survive, risking everything, putting all the cards on the table.' It was always that white-knuckle, fingernail-biting, nerve-destroying kind of situation." In late 1986 and early 1987, according to his longtime assistant Woods, Turner felt so run-down that some doctors...