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Word: pistoled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Charlie took his wife for a walk to cool off. Imogene, fondling an automatic pistol which her husband had given her, fired a few practice shots into her fireplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Incident in New Canaan | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Flyers welcomed news of additional emergency landing fields. Two platoons of Negro troops landed on six pinpoint islands between Saipan and Iwo, and took them at the cost of a single pistol shot. Back from a visit to the Marianas, General of the Army Henry H. Arnold announced that Superforts would soon operate from Okinawa, cutting over 1,000 miles from their round trip to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Patersons, Wichitas, Tacomas | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Then Phil opened his barracks bag and pulled out a watch he had brought home for his father, a palm-sized pistol he had taken from the Mayor of Mannheim, a .38 automatic* he had taken from a German, a flashlight he had picked up. in Hitler's house at Berchtesgaden and a pile of dirty clothes, which he dumped in a corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Return of Private Small | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Kempka said that Guensche had found the two bodies in Hitler's shelter. Hitler was shot through the head; a 7.65-mm. Walther pistol was on the floor beside him. Eva was shot through the heart; a 6.35-mm. pistol was beside her on a sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Where There's Smoke . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Senator Eduardo Chibas, Cuba's pint-size, pistol-packing politico, has fought two gun duels (nobody hurt) and a saber duel (one wound, Mercurochrome size). A fortnight ago he flourished a weapon again. During Havana's meat riots (TiME, June 18), police used tear gas freely. Burning with indignation and clutching a small revolver (see cut), the Senator dashed into the melee. "Shoot me too!" he shouted to the police. They declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Indignation | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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