Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be one Howard Houston. The former Haverhill all-scholastic hasn't lost the touch that won him all-New England honors last season. He still has the characteristic of hunching up his chest pads after every bone-crunching tackle he makes, and his blocks and tackles sound like pistol shots...
From the ruins of the old U.S. Embassy a rain of bricks and stones drove the first police back in retreat and pelted every Soviet-licensed car in sight. Then reinforcements sped up and the crowd fell back; pistol shots cut the air and the first man fell, pitching forward on his face. In the minutes that followed, the crowd rolled back & forth repeatedly through the columns of the Tor, as its courage alternately flared and faltered. As a whole it was not a bold crowd: one bunch that halted a Soviet car beat a hasty retreat when the officer...
...largely turned on an extraordinary drama at the Branden-burger Tor itself. A tall, dark youth had climbed the gate and was wrestling with the red flag on top. The crowd watched his progress with the hushed awe of an audience at an acrobatic show-even as pistol shots sporadically cracked out from the far side along Unter den Linden. Now the crowd cried: "Anbrennen!" (Burn it!). The first youth failed to get the flag down; two more tried, and the third finally sent it fluttering to the street...
...contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors...
Kaiser charged that White had "tried to blackjack the Government" into letting Republic have the plant dirt-cheap. He told how once, on the telephone, White had called him "the kind of fellow that carries a pistol in his pocket." When Kaiser tried to recall the date, White offered to provide it. Said he: "I had a stenographer on the telephone...