Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea that Doc is just a jock, though. He is also the world's greatest surgeon, the greatest chemist, the greatest inventor. He had Polaroid, television and the shotgun mike at least a decade before the public did, and if you don't watch out, he'll "teleport" you atom by atom to his mysterious laboratory near the North Pole. Like James Bond, Doc is gadget-gaga. Dozens of tiny martial devices-gas bombs, sedative darts, ultraviolet flashlights-are concealed in his clothing. His cars are rolling fire bases that can "go like Barney Oldfield" and crash...
...murders, as well as the ambush and wounding of two other New York City patrolmen only days before, have prompted both thoughtless and thoughtful responses. Edward J. Kiernan, president of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, advised "every member assigned to a radio car to purchase a shotgun, keep it loaded," and, if need be, "shoot to kill...
...girls, who posed no threat. Straight ahead the commons was almost empty. The closest student on the right seems to have been at least 20 yards away." Yet at the top of the hill the Guardsmen turned, then fired 55 M-l rifle bullets, five pistol shots and one shotgun blast in 13 seconds. The closest wounded student fell 71 ft. from the firing squad; the nearest dead youth was 265 ft. away, nearly the length of a football field...
Beyond negotiating a better deal with the British, Lockheed's choices are limited. It could switch to General Electric or Pratt & Whitney engines for the TriStar, but that, too, would mean delay and additional expense. The other visible alternatives are a shotgun merger or financial collapse...
When Marvin Katko, 30, broke into an abandoned farmhouse near Oskaloosa, Iowa, a shotgun cut loose with a load of buckshot, hitting him in the right ankle. The gun had been tied to a bed, and the trigger was wired to go off when the bedroom door was opened. Katko was arrested, for petty larceny, fined $50 and put on six months' probation. Justice had apparently been done, or so everyone thought-except Marvin Katko...