Word: pistol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the issuance of a call for Freshman candidates, Harvard's three shooting units, the Rifle Club, the Pistol Club, and the Naval Science rifle team, were peppering the target end of their Memorial Hall range at full blast early this week, and expect to announce their respective schedules and have their teams picked by competition shortly...
...since the opening of college. Except for the Naval Science team, sharpshooting is to be regulated quite differently this year than in the past, with a change being made in the number of members in the Rifle Club squad, and radical differences being introduced in the method of holding pistol tournaments...
...other 19 defendants sought to join her in a parade of injured innocents. Why did M. Raoul Desbrosses, director of the Orleans municipal pawnshop, sign worthless bonds so that Stavisky might sell them? "Stavisky was desperate!" cried Defendant Desbrosses last week. "When I refused to sign, he drew a pistol, pressed it to his temple, and threatened to pull the trigger. I signed to prevent him from committing suicide and because I could not bear the scandal of having a man found shot dead in my office!" Why did the jewel expert M. Emile Farault appraise as genuine jewels some...
...Louis where he raises sheep, turkeys, dogs, ducks. A man of broad humors and skillful hands, he is a proficient amateur magician, a rabid wrestling addict who calls most topflight wrestlers by their first names. He likes to be photographed wearing chaps, boots, spurs, cowboy hat and holster pistol, .although he cannot ride a horse...
...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...