Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Katherine was determined that her marriage would not be like her parents': full of quarreling, bitterness and hostility. But a shotgun wedding tied her to a man who proved to be a rigid, demanding and critical husband. In order to keep peace, she had to defer to him in everything. While he worked, she sat home nursing the baby and her grievances...
...restful Old South. Although he is only 46, he grew up in a Florida as different from today's as the pinewoods around his native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto the dry palmettos below...
...week's end the President was out in the open again, carrying a .410 gauge shotgun along a hedgerow, on the hunt for whatever legal game he might flush. Safely behind rode Grandson David Eisenhower in the pony cart...
Last week Mrs. Ann Woodward left the Manhattan hospital where she had been a patient for three weeks, since the night when she killed her husband, Millionaire Sportsman William Woodward Jr., with a blast from a shotgun (TIME, Nov. 7). The widow was no longer a dazzling glamour girl: shock and grief had visibly aged her, and she was in a state of near-collapse. Her first stop after leaving the hospital was police headquarters at Mineola, N.Y. There Ann Woodward repeated her story that she had killed her husband in the dark under the impression that...
...heart of Texas as a ranch guest of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Tennessee's prowling Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver showed that he can shoot as straight as Tennessee's Davy Crockett-even without his coonskin hat. Hunter Kefauver blasted at a duck with a shotgun, scored a clean miss...