Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary variety of water pistol the choice of the youngsters. Any tenant lugging less than a brace of six-shot repeating pistols, walks in imminent peril of being swamped by a better armed adversary...
...ground while the wind bit through their padded range jackets, they had had a bellyful of instruction in the Marines' dearest specialty-marksmanship. Even the sergeants had had to admit (in private) that there they had done pretty well-90% of them had qualified on the pistol and automatic rifle ranges, 75% with the Springfield. Betweentimes, swathed in coveralls, they had hiked, practiced open-order fighting, strung barbed wire. In the late afternoons, after 45 minutes of football, baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory...
...Uniform Pistol Act, which has just been approved by the Interstate Commission on Crime, the Commissioners on Uniform. State Laws, and the American Bar Association, is the first result of Professor Warner's work...
...month. But only 50 per cent of the applicants pass the thorough physical exam which requires perfect eyesight, 64 to 74 inches of height, a good physique, and at least "12 natural, opposing teeth." Lacking in the exam are the old-time tricks such as firing a pistol next...
Brandishing his .38-calibre pistol fearsomely upon his belated arrival from Manhattan, Asbestos Boy Tommy Manville discovered that neither searchlights on the terraces, a siren on the roof, dogs in the kennel, or five lurking guards, had prevented burglars from cracking a safe on his whopping New Rochelle, N. Y. estate and snaffling $7,500 in cash, $500 in gold plate...