Word: pistol
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...organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants [and] tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the Tonton in their grisly business, there is now even a ladies' auxiliary?the Fillette Lalo, a group of pistol-packing molls who are just as predatory as their male counterparts...
Chen said that the first assailant ran into the store at about 8:30 p.m., pointed a large pistol at his head and demanded that he open the cash register...
...issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The 23-year-old landed a piece in Judge three months later, and he was soon on the staff. His earliest contribution was a series on a croupier, utterly impassive as chaos explodes around him either at work (a gambler puts a pistol to his forehead) or at home (the kids attack each other while the croupier rakes in a plate from across the dinner table). His fascination with wordplay paraded itself in his oddments of fictional language: "lurch," "gog" (what is a gog?), be-"fuddle." Within a year he had added a byline...
...police are beginning to catch up. Dhahir proudly shows off his new $500 Austrian-made Glock pistol, now standard issue for Iraq's police. "The accuracy is great, especially at night," he says, pointing out glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...
...Clark has plenty of Southern tales. He told me about blasting cans in a crick--"You'd throw the beer can and take the pistol, and bang"--and, having grown up in Arkansas myself, I recounted freezing duck hunts on the Cache River. But Clark trumped me. He launched into a "Mama-thon"--how "beautiful" she was, how "capable." There was even a Faulknerian touch. "She wasn't good with babies, let's put it that way," he said of the late Veneta Clark, who became a working mother after Clark's dad died of a heart attack when...