Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floppy hoods on over their street clothes. Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson, a stocky little man from Denham Springs, La., has arrived in his long gray Chrysler. He likes to tell people it once belonged to President Nixon, and he usually adds regretfully that it is not bulletproof. A shotgun leans against the front seat. Boasts Klansman Gene West of San Antonio: "We've got a whole arsenal of guns here today, all of them concealed...
...isolated country cottage in the Aube region of northeastern France was easy pickings for burglars, who regularly made off with furniture, children's toys, sheets and kitchenware. After a dozen such thefts, Owner Lionel Legras, 50, operator of a local garage, fastened some shotgun cartridges to the inside of a transistor radio and locked it in a cupboard; he wired it to a timer that would detonate the shells 90 seconds after the radio was moved or switched on. Outside, he posted a warning: ENTRY PROHIBITED...
Looking frail and drawn much of the time, he seemed dwarfed by his entourage, which included the ever-present cardiologist, a ring of Israeli security agents and swarms of U.S. Secret Service men and police who manned sniper posts, rode shotgun in helicopters and stood at alert on fireboats. Yet the Premier's presence transcended all such hindrances. There was an incantatory tone to his cadenced, ritualistic speeches; when he spread his arms with open palms, the gesture seemed almost papal...
...visitor was met by at least three AR-15-armed guards. In his office, which still has holes in the wall from the ax attack of the U.M.W. toughs, B&M Owner Paul Teegarden kept a 9-mm Smith & Wesson automatic pistol on his desk and a 12-gauge shotgun on the wall. Said Teegarden, who lived in his office from the beginning of the strike: "If they come again they won't walk away...
...findings confirmed the estimate of U.S. and Canadian scientists that parts of the satellite had survived the searing 17,000-m.p.h. entry into the atmosphere and probably fell in a shotgun-like pattern over at least 200 miles. One of the biggest pieces found was a gray metal tube about the size of an office-building fire extinguisher that was discovered embedded in the ice of the remote Thelon River by two young Americans who happened to be on a research dogsled run through the Thelon Game Sanctuary. Scientists said that it emitted "moderate" radiation, and while they pondered whether...