Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability are not altogether idle. When he plays cards, he never loses. "It's fantastic the luck I have. It's that way with anything I want to try-I'm the champ. I'm the champ shot of the Guardia National, didja know that? Pistol or rifle. Jeez, I never miss, it seems...
Died. Alvin Jacob ("Jake") Powell, 39, rough & tumble onetime outfielder for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators; by his own hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball...
...decade later young Sam Colt ran away from home and, aboard a ship bound for India, whittled the wooden model of a pistol that was to become the great Colt revolver. Sam did not (by 200 years) invent the revolver, but when he got into production he extended Whitney's interchangeable-part system in the direction of the present-day assembly line...
Cuban justice had seemed as indignant over Patricia ("Satira") Schmidt's violation of Latin good manners as it was over the fact that she killed her lover, John Lester Mee, with a .22 pistol. In sentencing Cootch-Dancer Schmidt to 15 yeacs for manslaughter (TIME, Feb. 2), the judges had chided her for "appearing nude on the deck of [Mee's] yacht like a nymph," and for "swimming naked in [Havana] Bay." Said Toledo-born Satira: "They just don't understand our customs...
...Angeles Times ran a cartoon last month showing a hand clutching a pistol and a copy of a comic book called Sordid Crimes. The caption asked: "Do your children handle loaded guns?" The Times* was belatedly getting into the fight against the sex-and-violence comic books which are the bastard offspring of newspaper comics...