Word: holster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holster. In Knoxville, Cora Sharp was treated for a painful flesh wound, explained to police that her pistol had gone off accidentally as she was trying to make a fast draw from her brassiere...
Bleeding but upright, Vail turned from the phone, pulling his Colt from its hip holster; he pumped six shots at the manacled prisoners. Deliberately, he reloaded and pumped six more. When the smoke cleared away, both men were dead...
...that two bum-check suspects might be going that way. They were. Vail got them in front of Houston Prewet's filling station, handcuffed them and pushed them into the station office while he made a phone call. One of them whipped a .38 revolver from a shoulder holster and put four slugs in Vail. That was his mistake...
...left, Roosevelt lighted up-and gaily waved goodbye, the cigaret between his fingers. On another occasion, during a conversation between General de Gaulle and the Boss, Reilly sensed such ire in the General's manner that he says: "I was conscience-bound to remove my pistol from my holster and hold it unobtrusively in my hand for half an hour...
True, Mayor Herminio Rodríguez still wore a holster on his hip. But he packed no gun. The holster was a good place for carrying a carpenter's rule, a screwdriver, a pair of pliers. Explained Mayor Rodríguez: "Mexico is a law-abiding country now, and it isn't necessary for anybody to carry...