Word: holster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much of Crane's pungent idiom, and becomes a spry blend of gun-in-holster and tongue-in-cheek...
Snatching at the cop's holster to keep him from drawing, Remedios reached for his own pistol. But in the scuffle Remedios slipped on the curb and fell, dragging Gutierrez down. Landing on top, Gutierrez grabbed for his pistol and fired five times into the Congressman's back and head. Remedios, still clutching his own gun, rolled over, dying...
...Gunfighter" is the story of a man who is too good. He is Jimmy Ringo, an unimposing man with a soft voice-and the quick coordination of hand and eye which can pull a .45 out of its holster while another man's gun is still on the way up to his hip. Ringo is the "Biggest Gun in the West," attracting crowds of admirers ranging up from schoolchildren to bartenders; he also attracts a collection of youths with poor complexions and fancy cartridge belts--each hunting the fame of shooting down the Biggest...
...other two hid out. A sheriff's posse was organized to track them down-and the peerless Hogjaw and his hounds were requisitioned from the prison farm. Hogjaw turned up, burly and cocky, in a bright red shirt and striped pants. He belted on a pistol and holster, and at rainy daybreak put three dogs, High Rollin' Red, Nigger and Alabama, on the trail...