Word: pistol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about two minutes...
...black member of the band the Gangster of Love, and the only significant black character in the entire book. Sly is the group's drummer, his last name is Washington, and he lusts after white women, abuses drugs and carries a gun--in other words he's a pistol-toting, coke-snorting caricature...
Traditionally, a false start occurs when a runner starts before the starter pistol fires. But advances in technology have led to these errors being registered by a sensor attached to the starting block and connected to the starter...
When Harold Abrahams went to the starting line in Paris in '24, his coach, Sam Mussabini, told him, "Only think of two things--the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell till you break the other." There is a little more to the 100 than that. Even though it's over in a heartbeat, the race has three distinct stages: start, acceleration and deceleration. The start itself has two components, the reaction to the gun and the angle of takeoff. Says Brigham Young University track coach Willard Hirschi: "If you come...
...hired killer. The murder, the assassin decides, will take place when his target drives back to the monastery where he has been staying. Feigning engine trouble along the route, he waits for the old man to stop, then approaches as if to ask for a lift, pulls out a pistol and is fatally shot twice in the chest by the man he planned to kill...