Word: luger
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Twelve Years, Twelve Million. The word Gestapo was the creation of an anonymous postoffice clerk who used it as an abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), Hermann Goring's name for the gang of Luger-toting bully boys who accompanied him into...
Kluckhohn admitted that his German Luger had discharged while he was in Raleigh as the representative of a publishing firm. At the time, however, he did not believe that the shot had caused any harm. When he learned of the death he called the incident a "horrible accident...
...Second Man. As other guards and Secret Service men went into action, a second neat, dark man darted up to the guards at the west sentry booth, yanked out a Luger and began shooting at point-blank range...
...people weren't content to let the case rest. One of them was Melady, a New York reporter who had covered the intimidation trial. The other was Nathan Hamilton, husband of one of the victims. Up North when the verdict came, Nathan packed a Luger in his bag and started south...
...year-old ex-G.I. said little. But he brooded over the "derogatory remarks," of the neighbors. One morning last week he slipped a loaded clip into his Luger pistol, filled his pockets with ammunition, and went out to the sunlit street...