Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were the targets of one of Mendes' last empates, in March 1988. After the confrontation, Mendes, who had allegedly been threatened many times by the elder Da Silva, feared for his life and alerted the police. But on Dec. 22, 1988, Mendes was struck down by a single shotgun blast as he stepped out the back door of his home. His police bodyguards were inside playing dominoes. Mendes...
Police said two plainclothes officers were outside their unmarked car near Washington and School Sts. when Morales opened fire with a shotgun Saturday. One of the officers was struck on the head and the other in the hand...
Roache, however, told reporters yesterday that the officers might have thought Morales still had a gun in his hand. Police also said that the officers' wounds were not serious only because birdshot pellets, instead of heavier ammunition, were used in the shotgun...
...other words, Rhodes is drawn to balancing acts at the edge of despair, above what he calls "a hole in the world." His was blasted open in 1938 when his mother put a 12-gauge shotgun in her mouth and pushed the trigger with a slat...
...They should stop giving us misleading figures," said Franco Modigliani, who won the Nobel in 1985 for his analysis of savings and financial markets. The government is on the whole no more inefficient than it was six years ago. These shotgun figures are just designed to mislead...