Word: holstering
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...newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian stopped and walked calmly back to his jeep...
...Oakland's Northern Police Station, Isaac Fox sat quietly while an FBI agent questioned him. He talked candidly. But his eyes were fixed on the agent, and especially on the revolver which he carried in an open holster on his belt. As the agent leaned forward to write, Fox grabbed the pistol, got the end under his chin and pulled the trigger. The old bank robber toppled backward, dead...
...Holster. In Knoxville, Cora Sharp was treated for a painful flesh wound, explained to police that her pistol had gone off accidentally as she was trying to make a fast draw from her brassiere...
Bleeding but upright, Vail turned from the phone, pulling his Colt from its hip holster; he pumped six shots at the manacled prisoners. Deliberately, he reloaded and pumped six more. When the smoke cleared away, both men were dead...
...that two bum-check suspects might be going that way. They were. Vail got them in front of Houston Prewet's filling station, handcuffed them and pushed them into the station office while he made a phone call. One of them whipped a .38 revolver from a shoulder holster and put four slugs in Vail. That was his mistake...