Word: slugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your say. Now I'm going to have mine!" he shouted. "I'm going to kill every son of a bitch in this courtroom." Hauling out a .38-cal. revolver, he shot his wife's attorney dead. Marie Bivins came next: dropped by one slug in the neck, she died in the jury box. Judge Parker heaved his swivel chair at Bivins, who was pumping a slug at his own lawyer, showering the deputy court clerk with plaster when the bullet pinged into the wall near her head. Then he turned and shot Parker in the loins...
...while the company's engineers were designing air rifles capable of using it efficiently. After five years, their combined efforts produced a weapon of classic simplicity. The V-L (for Van Langenhoven) bullet consists merely of a cylindrical plug of solid propellant attached to the rear of a slug or missile. When the trigger of a V-L rifle is pulled, a powerful spring drives a cocked plunger into a cylinder, compressing and heating the trapped air to about 2,000° F. Escaping into the firing chamber through a valve, a jet of heated air strikes and ignites...
...doing away with trouble-prone extraction and ejection devices, says Hough, the V-L system "eliminates a lot of your hardware and a lot of potential malfunction problems." Further, instead of giving the lead slug a "punch," as the powder-filled cartridge does, the propellant gives it a "shove," reducing both recoil and noise...
...last. When police, alerted by a curious neighbor, entered the apartment one evening last April, they found Orville and Elaine in the bedroom. She was lying on the bed, wearing only an unbuttoned black and white kimono jacket. Drankhan was on the floor, fully clothed. Each had a .38 slug in the head. They had been dead 43 hours. Investigators speculated that the killer had not meant to shoot Elaine, but that the first bullet caromed off Orville's forehead and tore into her temple. The prime suspect: Jack Kirschke...
...Korean War predecessors. Even on automatic, the M-16 delivers deadly accuracy over the ranges (50 ft. or less) at which most Vietnamese fire fights take place. While the M-14 delivers relatively slow-moving bullets that drill cleanly through the body, the M-16 shoots a high-velocity slug that can pulverize enemy flesh on contact...