Word: holstering
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...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...
Despite the flamboyance of his rhetoric, officials say McGee has committed no crimes because he is not advocating "imminent lawless action." Indeed, the sidearm he packs in a leather holster is a slingshot. But Mayor John Norquist charges that McGee's firebrand behavior is "doing more to scare jobs away from his district" than to help it. "It's one thing to try to attract investment and capital," says Norquist. "It's another to use extortion...
When Congress adopted an obscure antiracketeering law in 1970, it seemed to target a particular kind of criminal: the old-school gangster wearing a fedora and a bulging shoulder holster. Nowadays, however, when federal prosecutors trigger the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, their sights are often set on a very different sort of defendant: a wealthy professional in designer pinstripes and Gucci loafers. In the nearly 20 years of its existence, RICO has evolved beyond its Mob-busting origins to become a powerful legal weapon against the upper reaches of white-collar crime. And because of its broad civil...