Word: holstering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most troubling- but also perhaps most politically appealing- is Connally's hand-on-the-holster posture. Talking to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Connally elaborated his call for in creased U.S. military presence around the world. ''The growth in the size and capability of Soviet strategic forces exceeds the Nazi buildup of the '30s,'' Connally warned. In the Middle East, particularly, he demanded that the U.S. ''move quickly to establish a rough balance of military power.'' By that he meant that the U.S. should have ''major...
Police allege that Terrance ripped Claggett's gun from his holster while the two were alone in the small processing room, shot and killed him, and then shot Swart as he ran towards the room. Melvin, who was handcuffed to a bench in another room, claims he witnessed the officers beating his brother just before the shootings occurred...
...many constitutional experts, who fear that a convention could not be limited to a single issue, thereby creating a sort of open season for tampering with the Constitution. In addition, many experts also oppose writing a flat prohibition on deficits into the Constitution. One reason is that it would holster an important weapon in coping with recession. Moreover, many doubt that a no-deficit amendment is practical. Robert Bork, Yale's conservative law professor and former U.S. Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, attempted for several months to draft a constitutional amendment that would limit federal spending...
Suddenly, high up on Usher Top Mountain, hundreds of feet above the river, everything in the darkened forest turned silent. Chapman pulled his Smith & Wesson .38-cal. Chiefs Special from his shoulder holster. At 2:10 a.m. Sandy led him to a pile of wet leaves and began wagging her tail. Beneath the foliage, Ray was lying on his back with his arms straight out, as though he had been crucified...
...night, you will see some very strange people on the street. But don't worry. You'll be perfectly safe. Two out of three of them will be police undercover men." Assistant Chief Inspector Daniel Courtenay, a burly man who wears a gun in an ankle holster like Popeye Doyle, is in charge of a ten-square-block area around convention hall. He has 1,200 police who have taken a quickie course in crowd control and what they call "crisis intervention." He also has four specially trained dogs. Every day before the delegates arrive, the dogs will...