Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then one night several weeks ago a jeep crashed to a halt on a street in Rome. Police pulled a Canadian soldier out of the car. He was a deserter, armed with a pistol stolen from an American MP. Police stood guard over the jeep. When another Canadian and a U.S. sergeant showed up and tried to recover the jeep at gunpoint, the guards nabbed them. That was a break which U.S. Lieut. Colonel John R. Pollock, Allied regional director of public safety, had been hoping...
...Margaret Island, in the Royal Palace in old Buda and across the river on the Corso of Pest, the city's life had become easy as a kept woman's. Then came the Russians. By this week Budapest found herself about to be deserted. With a Nazi pistol at her back, and the Russians in her streets, she faced destruction...
...officer sold the pistol to another officer for $175. In two more sales the pistol passed to a soldier for three quarts of whiskey (original cost...
...soldier sold the pistol for $75. It was promptly resold for $125 to a sailor, who then sold it to a Navy officer for five quarts of whiskey...
...last week the liquor brought into the local market by the chain of pistol sales had pulled down the price of whiskey in the Admiralty Islands to $45 a bottle. And everybody was happy-everybody had made a profit...