Word: holster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fastest Gun Alive (MGM) misfires before it is clear of the holster. The gun (a frontier-model .45) belongs to Broderick Crawford, a hulking fellow with itchy fingers and the single-barreled aim of killing any man who claims to be quicker on the draw. But even as he drills a slower man out in Silver Rapids, a blind seer mocks him: "No matter how fast you are, there's always somebody faster." Crawford like to have strangled...
Bracket. In Newhall, Calif., practicing a fast draw with a holster strapped to each hip, Harold J. Erickson grabbed for his six-shooters, squeezed both triggers before unholstering, shot himself in both legs...
Packing a dictator-size revolver in a belly-gun holster, Nicaragua's slang-slinging Despot Anastasio Somoza struck a benign pose as he proudly surveyed one of his pet projects, Port Somoza, now abuilding on Nicaragua's sultry Pacific coast...
...After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt's assets of $9,000,000 in his holster, it looked as if Silberstein had taken another big step towards his an nounced goal of making Penn-Texas one of the biggest U.S. corporations...
...committing ten holdups in Chicago in 1953. Put on probation by a kindly judge, Krolik pulled himself together, went to a Franciscan monastery in Topawa. Ariz., there worked on 14 murals that won high praise. Then confusion returned. Fortnight ago in Tucson, Krolik bought a $55 pistol and holster and left for El Paso...