Word: holster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
Chief conspirator seemed to have been Hyung Kim, a 35-year-old tailor who before leaving closed his store and sent a mimeographed letter to all his customers saying he was not coming back. Police found an empty pistol holster in his home and an air navigation chart. With him went his pretty 21-year-old wife (or mistress). Three of the conspirators had fought for North Korea during the war, had been captured, "renounced Communism," then enlisted in the South Korean army. They had all been in touch, said the police, with one Kang, "a North Korean agent with...
...harsh cry from the back of the church made everyone jump. "Peace! Peace! Where can we find peace?" Shouldering through the crowd at the door came a stocky man in a khaki jacket wearing a pistol in a shoulder holster. Following him were a woman in a peasant kerchief and a small girl. In a front pew, severe-looking Gifford Proctor, a business executive, demanded: "Who comes to this house of God seeking peace...
...hours in advance. Another unusual press service has been offered by New York Timesman William Blair. At Nixon's first press conference in Indianapolis, Blair sat in the front row and held up a small microphone that led to a miniature wire recorder in a shoulder holster. Since then the reporters have been checking their quotes with Blair's machine, and even the Nixon staff has regularly consulted "dicky bird," as the newsmen dubbed the gadget because of the chirping squeal when it is run to replay a speech...
...evils of gunslinging. Next day Glenn offers up his weapon on the church altar, explaining that he must skip town because "trouble collects around a fast gun." Too late. Enter bellicose Brod, hankering to drill Glenn. As the congregation sings Holy, Holy, Holy, Glenn dutifully straps on his holster for the showdown. As Miss Crain mumbles after the fireworks, "I guess that takes care of everything...