Word: slugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef, complete with faked, blue government-inspection stamps...
...front of Kassem as a shield, and a taxi driver rammed his cab between Kassem's station wagon and the gunmen. But it was too late; Kassem's driver lay dead, and the Premier himself was reeling and bloodied, his hand ripped by one submachine gun slug, his arm shattered by two more. He had escaped death by inches...
...will turn the management of Britain's foreign policy, economy and continuing social revolution for anything up to five years to come. Last week, as it became apparent that this glittering prize was genuinely up for grabs, Britain's politicians took off the gloves and began to slug it out barefisted...
...hazily allowed that he had been approached by an insistent autograph hound. Heavy-lidded ex-Truck Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum had poured a smoky slug of Irish whisky over somebody else's head, butted his new adversary on the jaw, got kicked in the face in reply. Next morning Pugilist Mitchum turned up for moviemaking with a cut nose, fast-blackening eye, aching jaw and a wry admission that "he certainly hurt...
...leads the league in no major category, but has good first-line pitching (Johnny Antonelli. 14-5; Sam Jones, 14-10), streak-hitting Centerfielder Willie ("Say Hey") Mays (.301), who can still ignite eight ordinary men with his extraordinary play, and First Baseman Orlando Cepeda (.321), who can slug the ball out of sight (19 home runs). Shortstop Ed Bressoud plugs a leaky infield, and stubby Catcher Hobie Landrith gives the Giants a holler guy who seems to carry a mitt on one hand and a gavel in the other, is ready to call an infield meeting at the first...