Word: holster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There would seem to be a large potential audience. According to a 1988 Gallup poll, 15.6 million American women own a rifle, shotgun or handgun. The latest issue includes feature stories on fashionable holster bags and how to choose a .38 Special revolver. Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, have gone ballistic about the new magazine. Says Susan Witmore of Handgun Control Inc. in Washington: "It is published by a gun lobby and designed to prey on the legitimate fears of women, saying, in effect, that their only protection...
...snaps on his blue roof light and hits the gas. Within minutes, he reaches the Cessna 441. Its props are still turning, but the pilot has fled into the dense, swampy undergrowth. Dressed for the office in a suit and loafers, Kennedy pulls a Walther PPK from his ankle holster and gamely wades in, immediately losing a shoe to the muck. Reinforcements soon join him, and the search goes on for hours. Though the pilot manages to evade them, Kennedy and his colleagues seize nearly a ton of cocaine from the abandoned plane...
...visited three provincial capitals, Ba'quba, Ramadi and Mosul, as well as his hometown of Tikrit. At each stop, thousands of followers, mostly young people, cheered him, chanting, "Bush, Bush, listen well, we all love Saddam Hussein!" In Mosul the Iraqi President ostentatiously drew a pistol from his holster and fired several shots over the heads of the crowd. The throng went wild, and the footage was shown over and over on Iraqi television. "Tomorrow, if they were given new instructions, they would chant different slogans," says an East European diplomat who has met Saddam many times. "My impression...
...warned him, according to an Iraqi informant, that an attack he had ordered would lead to very high casualties. Saddam invited the general into the next room to discuss the matter. After the door closed behind them, a shot rang out. Saddam returned alone, stuffing his pistol into his holster...
...defense lawyer: Gerry Spence of Wyoming, a John Wayne wannabe whose trademark is an oversize Stetson atop poet-length silver locks. "When I come into a courtroom, I come to do battle," Spence growls, his hand figuratively on his holster...