Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naked Nuns. The U.S.-Belgian intervention was decided upon only as a last resort, when all negotiations had failed with the rebel regime of Christophe Gbenye-the bearded "President" of the Peking-backed Congo People's Republic, who packs a Colt revolver in his blue jeans and drives a Rolls-Royce...
Still grey with campaign fatigue, some 150 newsmen and White House staffers loped around the L.B.J. ranch at L.B.J.'s heels. Victory -vast victory -had cleared the President's face of its recent worried lines; he seemed fresh as a daisy and frisky as a colt...
...star admirals don't even necessarily fade away. Presiding over the 25th annual pistol match between San Francisco's Olympic Club and the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda, retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told...
Joseph is a wild colt, A wild colt by a spring, Wild asses on a hillside...
...with the expertise of an Ian Fleming. "Now then, about that S & W you carry," said Wild Bill. "It is a handsome weapon, but the shells have a bad habit of erupting and jamming the chambers. I'd lay the piece aside and get me something else: a Colt's, with the Thuer conversion." Crabb reports that Hickok knew an hombre who carried a small pistol in his crotch. When cornered, the fellow would ask permission to relieve himself before dying, open his fly, and fire. "The trouble was one time he got overhasty and shot...