Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zeus, however, was merely "a bullet that could stop a bullet," whereas the anticipated threat was a shotgun blast of many projectiles aimed at the U.S. With limited range, relatively low speed and me chanically operated radars that could handle only one target at a time, Zeus offered only "terminal defense" ? protection
After reportedly telling a guard to "be sure to aim for my head," Bunch, who had been examined by an Army psychiatrist, deliberately walked away from a work detail. He was killed by a single shotgun blast that ripped his skull. That night, when the other prisoners vocally protested the shooting, Captain Robert S. Lament, 25, disciplinary officer, told them that they were in danger of committing mutiny...
...Commonwealth gives Britons something -they might regret losing: an echo of empire. An amorphous grouping of white and yellow, black and brown, it is well-nigh unequaled for sheer curiosity and panoply. There in London last week were the Daimler sedans, each with a Special Branch man riding shotgun in the front, whisking delegates from their suites in Claridges, Grosvenor House or the Dorchester to the Regency-style Marlborough House. There at the meeting itself was Harold Wilson, impatiently tapping his outsize Tanzanian meerschaum on the mahogany conference table when a speaker droned on. There, too, were Malawi...
Other producers have reached the same conclusion. Killings continue, but when possible they take place with a "less violent" weapon. In one episode of NBC's The Outsider, the script called for the hero to be threatened with a shotgun; the censor suggested a meat cleaver be substituted, apparently figuring quieter weapons are less violent...
...identified himself as a detective knocked on the door and said he had information about an auto accident involving a man in a white Ford. Thinking that Woodward had been hurt, Mrs. Mackle opened the door and found herself confronted by a masked man carrying a shotgun, and a smaller person wearing a ski mask, who, Mrs. Mackle thought, might be a twelve-year-old boy. After binding Mrs. Mackle hand and foot, the kidnapers seized Barbara and hustled her into a car. Mrs. Mackle freed herself in minutes and phoned the police. Almost at once, the FBI mobilized agents...