Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being driven home in a Jeep with two other land-reform officials, a band of 15 or 20 masked, armed horsemen stopped the car near town and ordered the occupants to get out. "Abedi was the first one out." recalled the driver, "and they immediately cut him down with shotgun and rifle fire." Without harming the other two officials, the killers fled...
...thrifty Dutch are not about to spend their liquid gold recklessly. Shell and Esso have been shepherded into a shotgun marriage w?ith The Netherlands States Mines to market the gas. and De Pous. now-dubbed "The Sheik" by wags around The Hague, is laying down stringent marketing regulations. Present plans are to reserve about 25 billion cubic feet of it for "premium'' industrial use. including the fueling of projected new aluminum and ammonia plants, and to enable Dutch householders to convert to gas furnaces and stoves...
...taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary campaigns, racial violence popped out like the pox: night riders prowled the state, there were shotgun incidents in Dallas, Leesburg and Dawson, and two Negro churches were burned to the ground...
...drug thalidomide and the prospect of a hideously deformed child being born as a result of its use should be more than adequate justification for legal abortion−but there are other equally good reasons: many young lives have been wrecked because sexually overzealous youths were forced into "shotgun" marriages at an early age as a result of unwanted pregnancy; many much younger lives have been ruined when children of tender ages have found that they are not really wanted in homes where their birth was an "accident." To liberalize abortion laws would not be to encourage immorality but would...
...member of the cadet branch of the county's first families (the Edmondses and McCaslins), but its proud chauffeur is Boon Hogganbeck, the childlike, "tough, faithful, brave and completely unreliable" part Indian who be came famous in The Bear for not being able to hit anything with a shotgun, rifle or weapon of any kind...