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Word: holster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither man takes chances. Boston never leaves home without his gun, "even to go to church"; Messaros says he straps his holster on before he brushes his teeth. "Fear is something in your mind that has to be overcome," Messaros says. Boston is equally stoic: "Hell, I could die tomorrow at the movies." Still, both feel that their equipment-pistol, blackjack, nightstick, helmet-could be improved upon by putting a sawed-off shotgun in their car. No need to point it at anyone, they say-"just that you come out of the car, and it comes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Two Policemen on the Beat | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...cuts a figure that is every bit as dashing as his style of command. In addition to his trademark camouflage jungle suit, Tri's combat regalia usually include a black three-starred baseball cap, a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson .38 in a shoulder holster, a leather-covered briar pipe, and a swagger stick carried under the arm. "I use it to spank the Viet Cong," Tri says with a wide grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Patton of the Parrot's Beak | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...they have." Without exactly meaning to, white Middle America rests upon the unspoken threat of sheer presence and the six-gun deterrent, Gary Cooper's fingers twitching two inches from his holster. No wonder the Middle Americans recoil when the twitching fingers are black?as at Cornell, or at Black Panther headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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