Word: slug
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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...