Word: holster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombing, meanwhile, had knocked the fight out of Diaz. At 2 a.m. he phoned the ambassador. "Senor Peurifoy," he said, "please come to my house.'' With a .38 Colt in his shoulder holster. Peurifoy drove through the empty, fear-haunted streets to the armed forces headquarters, where Diaz was staying. Diaz brought up a plan to talk peace with Castillo Armas in the neighboring republic of El Salvador. But even as they talked, other officers in the next room were openly grumbling that Diaz ought to be booted for his softness to the Communists. Uneasily aware of this...
...argument in the next room got to the explosive stage. Then an outside door burst open, and Colonel Monzón entered with two other colonels. They said nothing as they strode through the room to join Diaz and the others, but one of the men slapped his holster significantly. Diaz, with a Tommy gun in his ribs, was unceremoniously escorted to a side door. Monzón reappeared. "My colleague Diaz has decided to resign," he explained suavely. "I am replacing him." That was an authentic change, and Peurifoy energetically set to work arranging for peace talks...
...What about the 38 in my shoulder holster?" I quipped, sensing the humor of the situation...
...shaky wooden table outside his shop on Seoul's crowded South Gate Road last week, a gold-toothed leather craftsman tacked a crudely lettered sign: "Be-cus no more fight, no more gun holster but al kine camera bag." Throughout war-torn South Korea, from the open-sewered streets of Pusan to the rice-rich fields just below the front lines, there were similar signs of economic stirrings...
...just landed on South Korea's Kimpo airfield near Seoul. As U.N. airmen raced toward the red-starred, silver plane, the MIG pilot-a 25-year-old North Korean in a neat blue jumper suit -methodically tore up a picture of a girl friend, unstrapped his pistol holster, saluted smartly and surrendered...