Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taken hunting in Kent by Prince Philip, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 12, knocked down a pheasant with the first blast from his .410 double-barreled shotgun. Before the morning's shooting was finished, father and son had bagged 20 birds. All this filled Philip with paternal pride, but the birds had scarcely been plucked when Britain's vigilant League Against Cruel Sports fired its own inevitable burst: "Here you have a child who is taught to love animals and birds on one hand and is then told, in the same circles, that it is a social...
...that another actress had plans of her own for Gable, Carole Lombard stormed the set, told the director: "Get that whore out of this film or Gable goes.'' The rival vanished. Lombard gave her man a pure white Ford adorned with red valentines, learned to handle a shotgun so she could join him on his beloved hunting trips...
...their findings, an Eastern Airlines DC-8 jet struck a flock of birds last week as it taxied for a take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport, slammed to a stop on the runway only in the nick of time. Alarmed, Logan authorities established roving bands of shotgun-armed guards who have orders to shoot at birds on sight...
...hungry hummingbird through more than a dozen states, he showed no concern over the religion question (though he was prepared, if necessary, to go on TV to outline again his church-state philosophy). But his awareness of Ike's impact was implicit in a series of Kennedy shotgun blasts from rostrums everywhere. To counteract the spread of the President's warnings that a Democratic victory would bring a new wave of inflation, Kennedy issued a formal statement in Philadelphia promising "reasonable price stability" and pledging not to devalue the dollar: "Rather, I shall defend its present value...
...chains and 30-lb. weights, they were quietly dropped over the side. Mrs. Chillingworth was the first to die: "Ladies first," said Holzapfel politely, as he pushed her overboard. The judge, a strong swimmer, struggled in the water and nearly managed to escape, but a blow from a shotgun butt sent him to the bottom...