Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jean Fourcade of Strasbourg, a specialist, demonstrated a new method of ascertaining the respective positions of killed and killer in murders where a pistol is fired through a windowpane. Dr. Muller of Lille spoke on "Encouraging Toxicomania with the View of Inheriting Money." He cited the case of a British peer whose addiction to morphine had been fatally nurtured by his greedy relatives. The most striking report was made by four Yugoslav doctors on war crimes...
Last week Bangkok police ambushed five armed robbers and stripped them of their lethal weapons: two revolvers, one automatic pistol, five long, double-edged knives, three bundles of rope and a dozen lemons. The last item represents a new twist in Bangkok banditry. Armed robbers use the lemons to gag wealthy victims in daylight housebreaks...
Alice is a brisk, sober, sandy-haired woman, with thin lips and level blue eyes. Even when she was a rookie, fellow cops on the auto-theft detail admired her for her cool nerve. She went anywhere, any time, and she carried her blue .38-caliber service pistol as naturally as she did her handbag. In a year, she built up quite a record of arrests...
Havelock recalled that his assailant, armed with a foreign make pistol, looked inexperienced. "He kept waving that gun around frantically," Havelock commented, "explaining that he had a wife and kids and that a Harvard man could afford any loss...
According to Havelock's own story, at about 8:15 o'clock he heard several doorknobs being tried outside his room, but paid no attention to this until his own began to turn. At this point he opened the door, to be confronted by the muzzle of an automatic pistol...