Word: sluggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pile of Bones. Englishmen took in the gruesome details of the latest crime avidly, but with a practiced palate-it was, both in its profusion of corpses and in certain other characteristics, so very like London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer...
Headstrong. In Painesville, Ohio, William Marut, after wondering for weeks what had hit his head New Year's Eve, finally got around to showing the bump to a doctor, who found a .22 slug embedded in his scalp...
Radcliffe's Choral Society and the Williams Glee Club will slug in a free joint concert in Paine Hall at 8:15 p.m. tonight...
...subjecting an enemy to constant pressure, risking big initial casualties in violent assault rather than submitting to a long, wearing attrition. Second Lieut. Shepherd, U.S.M.C., went into action as a platoon leader with the 5th Marine Regiment at Belleau Wood, was hit in the neck by a machine-gun slug, fought on with his men for three days and was hit again before he finally went to the rear...
...absentmindedly pumped four shots into Pierre. Her small son Matthieu promptly burst into tears. She took him down to the concierge. Then she went upstairs, planning once again to kill herself. As she thought of Matthieu and another, elder son, her arm went limp and-bang-there went another slug into Pierre. The courtroom sighed in sympathy...