Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hatless Corpse. That evening, sharp as ever in a dark suit, pearl-grey fedora and canary-yellow gloves, Drury drove his new black Cadillac home. At 6:45 he backed into the garage. Two men stepped out of the darkness and faced the car. With a shotgun and a .45, they punched four holes in the windshield. The first slugs knocked Drury's hat to the seat; the rest plowed into his head and body. An hour later Bill Drury was dead-without a hat on. Upstairs on his desk was a telephone message: the Kefauver committee had called...
Evidence that some citizens are up in arms over the Yale outrages came yesterday. A Connecticut farmer shot Yale freshman John Brittingham in the right hip and arm with a shotgun. The farmer told police that he was guarding against night-time marauders who were dumping his milk cans. Three other Yalies, who were with Brittingham, were released by police and their names withheld...
...work among one of the fiercest tribes in Africa-the blood-drinking, spear-wielding Masai. Going back to Tanganyika from his last furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days range from dullness to drama, from frustration to reward. His letter describing one exciting 24 hours appeared last week...
...Expecting trouble during the night, I loaded my shotgun with small shot. But nothing happened. Only the hyenas roared and the jackals barked hoarsely over the remnant of the festive meal...
...Dubious Battle. In Oklahoma City, Mildred Patrick, arrested with two U.S. Army privates on a charge of firing a shotgun within the city limits, explained: "I was orienting the boys for the big fight...