Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshall said: "I was thinking of the taxpayer. I want an enduring system, not one that's going to collapse of high cost." Missouri's Dewey Short, a man constitutionally opposed to universal military training, complained that the merger of the draft with U.M.T. looked like "a shotgun wedding" to him. "I did that," said George Marshall. "I'm glad you've the courage to admit it," said Short. Retorted a coldly indignant George Marshall: "I'm not admitting it. I'm telling...
Percy Julian, a proud, energetic man of 51, stood his ground and served notice that his family would move into the house by New Year's Day. He hired (for $36 a day) a private, round-the-clock guard to patrol the property with bulldog and shotgun. "We've lived through these things all our lives," said Percy Julian. "As far as the hurt to the spirit goes, we've become accustomed to that...
...lean little sparrow hawk of a man, sharp-beaked, with bright hazel eyes, Menaboni roams the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a .410 shotgun, a camera, traps and a sketch pad (he has special state and federal permits to collect two of each species a year for his pictures). Whenever possible, Menaboni draws his birds from life, to get the action right, sometimes dispatches them to do the plumage. The fact that he can keep them fresh in a refrigerator, he says, is a big advantage that Audubon would have appreciated. Another and greater advantage is his ability...
Uncle Scott Partin remembers well the first time he saw Parson Frakes. "I had a jug of moonshine in one fence corner," he recalls, "and a shotgun in the other. I had a notion to shoot him. I thought he was a revenuer...
Nevertheless, both Northeast's Gardner and Delta's Woolman thought they could eventually get CAB's green light. Said Woolman: "This [type of] merger is what CAB . . . has been asking for. It is not a shotgun wedding, but something both want to improve operations...