Word: buckshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curfew. The two killers were waiting for them in the shadow of a nearby clump of evergreens. As Touhy and Miller went up the steps of Ethel Alesia's porch, the gunmen stepped to the walk behind them, fired low with six blasts of 12-gauge, 00 buckshot pellets...
...much airplane as boat, they are bellowing giants powered by World War II fighter-plane engines, ride on two hand-size patches of hull and the submerged half of a whirling propeller, skip along the water like a flat stone thrown from shore, tossing spray with the sting of buckshot. No one knows how fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like a fighter strip...
Furious, he conducts a one-man raid on a well-known elephant trapper's stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to the U.S. public as a glorious but unsung hero, "a modern Robin Hood...
Horrendous Buckshot. Next day in the House, the Democratic leaders, with many a soaring declaration for foreign aid already on the record, stood aside and let the appropriations subcommittee chairman, Louisiana's Otto Ernest Passman, carry the day for the funds cut on the House floor. As he engineered the cuts, Passman nervously crossed and recrossed his long legs, danced around in his sporty black and white Oxfords, demanded recognition by snapping his fingers into the microphone, once blew a rapturous kiss to a Northern Democrat who paid him a compliment on the thoroughness of his committee work...
Spiking his debate with partisan references to "vicuña" and "Eisenhower recession," Passman-armed with an impressive amount of detail on the program -got away virtually unchallenged with horrendous buckshot charges. Sample: "The defense support part of this program in all probability has been responsible for more bribery, overpricing, conniving and profit taking on the part of officials and friends of officials in foreign nations than any program ever conceived by the mind...