Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare, promised to press hard for Socialist goals when the country can better afford them. Brandt managed to defuse the conference by warning the Christian Democrats not to expect the Socialists to be "meek as lambs." "I call the Grand Coalition neither a marriage of love nor a shotgun marriage," he said, "but a question of practical politics." After that, the Socialist delegates departed, considerably meeker themselves...
...after evening for the aristocrat to arrive. Out of bore dom, Eklund endures him, then tolerates him, and at last-her cool melted by champagne-falls in love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...
...with a hypothetical Communist attack on West Berlin. The British government declares a state of national emergency, and the scene changes to Rochester to see how people react. And they react like animals. A beefy homeowner proudly points to his homemade sandbag shelter and, lying next to it, a shotgun for use on neighbors who try to push their way in. (The average family, as building contractors and lumber dealers push up prices, can afforod one sandbag and a few boards...
Doing All Right. Despite the large Negro vote, violence came only after the election. At a farm near Fayette, where Evers has his headquarters, Farmer Cecil Kling, 54, was so riled by the success of Negro candidates that he pulled a shotgun on four Negro farmhands and declared: "I'm gonna shoot you all." When one of the Negroes, Samuel Carroll, 53, tried to plead with him, Kling triggered a fatal shotgun blast into Carroll's heart. "I oughta kill all of you," snapped Kling, then drove into town and gave himself up. That night, 400 angry Negroes...
...grounds for abortion. Last week a government committee studying the question of lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 years could not refrain from noting the sexual implications involved: the bill might, said the committee, by reducing the age of consent, "take the cartridge out of the shotgun marriage." Said the Marquess of Salisbury recently: "Practices that a few years ago could hardly have been mentioned at all in decent society are now taken as a matter of course...