Word: holstering
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...fuzz an eyeball description of the wagon," meaning that the filling-station attendant was certain to give the cops a full description of the stolen car. Pretty soon, as the script commands, she "tantalizingly presses her body against the deputy's and eases his own gun from its holster. The movement of her shirt rubbing against him opens the front revealingly." "See?" she asks tauntingly. "You should've searched me. You kinda missed something, didn't you, copper?" The movie thus plants itself squarely in the category of the big leer (TIME, June...
...emphasized last week when Baron von Freudiger was asked if he could recognize Eichmann. The baron stared at the defendant for a long time, then said: "In my memory lives the image of the lieutenant colonel in a smart uniform standing with his legs astride, his hand on his holster, shouting at me from the heights of his 'master race.' But, nevertheless, I do think that...
...expose the failings of his compatriots in the very act of exhibiting the fortitude. The immemorial heartbreak of For men must work and women must weep was to be mixed with a colder appraisal of the men themselves. They stand forth half-cocked and high-talking patriots, revolver in holster and glass in hand, while slum poverty stares out, and children grow tuberculous and die, and pregnant women are maddened with fear and worry, and it is the very Free-State-hating harridans who know how to hold firm and are able to help...
...asocial and undesirable." So his parents decided to buy him a couple of bars to run. When the bars failed, they bought him a book shop, hoping that the contagion of handling books might improve his mind. But by that time Georges, who had taken to wearing a shoulder holster and revolver, had already carved out another life on his own. Last week he was one of the most talked-about young men in the country...
Thigh Noon. In Clinton, S.C., when Joe Spillers and Edgar Ballew tried to see who could beat the other to the draw, neither man got his pistol out of its holster, each shot himself...