Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these enemies was perhaps baffling to those investigating Tresca's murder. Said New York's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan: "It seems at some time or other, in politics and personalities, that Tresca was 'agin everything.' " Police had one important witness, several thin leads. A pistol had been found near the murder scene, and an abandoned car. An ex-convict had been spotted entering the same car just before the murder; he was in custody and being questioned. More than 100 detectives were on the case, for among the slain man's friends was Mayor...
Behind them was training such as U.S. soldiers had seldom seen. Picked, from the Air Forces training school at Miami, they had been whisked to Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, put through six weeks of courses ranging from statistical methods and analysis to pistol practice. There they had been fitted, at the inspiration of Lieut. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of the USAAF, to apply the best technical methods of U.S. business to the Air Forces. Thus had the Air Forces made a new (and already successful) approach toward exactitude in a new, vastly complicated...
...Whitey" was his deputy commander, Brigadier General Ennis C. Whitehead. "Em" was the Japanese concentration at Rabaul. Rabaul Peninsula lies at the northern tip of New Britain, 480 air miles from Moresby. It looks not unlike the cocked hammer of a pistol, and like a pistol the Japanese have pointed it at the Allies in the Southwest Pacific. Kenney's planes had hit it before, but not in the strength he wanted. Now Whitehead had met him at the airdrome with the news that his strength was mustered: two squadrons of Flying Fortresses, one of B-24 Liberators...
...afternoon the whole building is in use, and by students. Starting at the bottom like an Alger here, the crevices between the pipes in the basement see service as a shooting gallery for the Mill Sci pistol team...
When the Germans took an R.A.F. airdrome in Greece, they caught Nick with his pistol emptied. "You can't do this to me-I'm an American officer!" he yelled when the Nazis herded him with the captured British. They...