Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later, Knifey went home. Under one arm, in a box, was the target pistol with which he had killed four men. Under the other was a box of candy for Foster Mother Anna. The cops were waiting for him. They took Knifey up to the hospital room where young Charles Kwasinski lay dying. Said Knifey: "Hello...
...said he had not seen her in five years. Somebody asked Spivey if he knew where his potato patch was, near there. When Spivey said he did not, the man said, "You're a God-damned liar" and hit him on the head with the butt of his pistol. The man swung again, missed, hit a white man beside...
Last week a third trial was just getting under way; the jury was still being picked. Into Conroe courthouse, into the courtroom strode W. S. Cochran, landowner, husband of the woman White was accused of raping. Up to the prisoner's dock marched Rancher Cochran. He aimed a pistol at White's head, fired. The Negro dropped dead...
...partitioning. On a tour of the Albanian battlefields went Italy's and Albania's little 71-year-old King Vittorio Emanuele III. While he was motoring toward the Tirana airport with Albanian Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed that his target had been not the King, but Premier Verlaci...
...Africa looks like a fat pistol holster, and about where the lower extremity of the butt would nestle lies the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. This little nook of Empire has suddenly become important-because of its only port...