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...What about the 38 in my shoulder holster?" I quipped, sensing the humor of the situation...

Author: By H. E. Edmunds, | Title: Riot in Cell 28 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Korean Rebuilding | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: F.O.B. $100,000 | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Immunity Ended | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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