Word: slugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruce Lamb, 17, was out rabbit hunting on the high plains near his home in Powell, Wyo. when one of his high school classmates accidentally plugged him in the back. The .22-cal. slug slammed into his left shoulder, about three in. left of his spine. At War Memorial Hospital, the family doctor, Ray Christensen, found that Bruce's left lung had been punctured. He put a tube into the boy's chest, drew off blood and reinflated the lung. But Dr. Christensen, to his puzzlement, could not find the bullet...
...Billings, Mont. There X rays located the bullet - in Bruce's left knee. Evidently the bullet had hit a rib, lost its momentum, entered the pulmonary vein carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart's upper left chamber. Car ried along with the blood, the slug went through the mitral valve into the left ventricle and up through the aortic valve. It turned downward at the aorta's arch in the upper chest, and traveled through the femoral artery until this became too nar row. Then the bullet stopped behind the left knee. Surgeons...
...evening last month, Bertie Maughmer phoned police to report that her husband had been shot. Her story: he was teaching her how to use his .357 Magnum pistol when suddenly it sent a high-powered slug through his stomach. On the verge of death, Maughmer seemed to back her story. But nine days later he recovered enough to tell a different tale. After a violent argument, he said, she had waylaid him in the bedroom and shot him in a cold fury...
When he has wrecked the Oriental T-bird on a quick-built brick and mortar tariff wall, Business Man moves on to do battle with Collective Man. They square off and slug it out with slogans. Collective Man lands two left hooks: "The irresistible historical momentum of the workers' movement" and "the forward thrust of Soviet science." Business Man fights back with collective bargaining and the eight-hour day, follows up with everything from recovered space monkeys to the thinking man's filter. Momentarily victorious, he says: "Come back next week to see how I straighten out that...
...November-while the voters heard from Millionaire Kennedy and Stout Proletarian Humphrey that they had seldom had it worse. Passing through Carson City, Nev. last week, Humphrey summed it up succinctly: "Democrats don't win when they go around playing ticktacktoe. They win when they slug...