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Word: shotguns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squad of invaders crashed into the embassy commissary and disarmed three Marine guards. Sergeant Kenneth Kraus, 22, was wounded in the forehead and eyes by pellets from his own shotgun, which had been taken by one of the leftists. At that, Kraus was lucky. "When they burst in, one of our Iranian employees stepped in front of me," said Kraus from his hospital bed. "He took a machine gun bullet in the chest. I guess he was hurt pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankee, We've Come to Do You In | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Late last December, Robert Earl ("Bubba") May Jr., 14, was arrested with three companions for using a shotgun to rob two fireworks stands near the sleepy farm town of Brookhaven, Miss., and stealing a wallet. Two nights later Bubba and two of his accomplices robbed a grocery and beat up a saleswoman. Indicted on four counts of armed robbery, he was convicted only a week later. His sentence: 48 years in prison without chance of parole, the product of a plea bargain by his court-appointed attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Rough Justice in Mississippi | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Kill me! I will not give up my weapon." He fired his shotgun into the air and ran. Finally, he smashed the gun against the cemetery gate before being subdued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: War Casualty | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...against Coughlin eventually be dropped. Kirby accepted a state medical diagnosis that Coughlin was suffering at the time of the incident from "traumatic war neurosis" and thus could not be held criminally responsible for his action. Kirby and the judge agreed that the charge of owning a sawed-off shotgun would be dismissed after two years, provided Coughlin behaved and continued to respond to the drug abuse treatment that commenced soon after his arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: War Casualty | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...Good medical practice is more economical. The burden is on the physician to order diagnostic tests with parsimony. A rifle, not a shotgun, approach should be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Battered Patients | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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