Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committed suicide "following a definite invitation of the French High Command," reported Benito Mussolini's newspaper Popolo d'ltalia, reviving the romantic tradition which demands that an officer who fails disastrously be handed a bottle of brandy and a loaded pistol...
...head had begun to turn sorrel and recede. By that time he had perfected all he had learned about politics in college. To his natural informality was added a slow grin which revealed one snagged, gold-edged front tooth. Backed by Minnesota progressives and a rowdy, pistol-shooting, horse-riding organization from the South St. Paul stockyards, called the "Hook 'Em Cows," he won the election, became the youngest Governor...
...head of the Storm Troops, behind Ludendorff and Hitler. As the Brown Shirts advanced toward the Feldherrn-halle, rifle bullets peppered them. Fourteen were killed. Hitler fell flat, dislocated his shoulder. Göring also fell, wounded in the thigh. Old Man Ludendorff marched on alone, firing his pistol until he was captured...
...Georg Achates Gripenberg was summoned to the Foreign Office and asked what he knew about the peace negotiations. London was naturally anxious. If peace were concluded, Germany's northern flank would be secure, the southern made more secure. The important Scandinavian neutrals-"Norway points like a pistol at the heart of England," wrote Leslie Hore-Belisha recently -would fall deep into Russo-German influence...
...watch, were in their bunks. From somewhere among the shadowy pierheads, 20 yards off, a rowboat put softly out, pulled alongside. Three men with the daring of none but I. R. A. itself leaped aboard, and set upon the watch. In the tussle, the watch managed to draw his pistol. As the attackers heaved him overboard, he fired three shots, rousing the sleeping.crew. The marauders fled to their boat, pulled frantically for shore and escaped. Eire's first Navy had won its first shindig...