Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more in common than Odets' Night Music and Elmer Rice's Manhattan idyl, Two on an Island. But where Rice, turned slickster, wears false face and speaks in falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid and pulsing scenes in Night Music; and at least the hero (admirably played by Elia Kazan) is thoroughly alive...
...Yesterday, in a hand-to-hand fight, I was separated from my men and surrounded by Bolsheviks. Three of them, armed with automatic pistols, started hunting me. I killed two of them and the third one ran away. Thank heavens for that! . . . By that time my old pistol, which wasn't very good as you know, was so hot that it broke to pieces. ... It is now, as you know, that your brother's life is depending on his knife...
...Readers Hornbeck and Dedrick reflect that the Finn's ammunition (for an old pistol) would not fit the Russians' automatic pistols, 2) that if the dead Russians had any ammunition on them, it would not last long, 3) that captured material is not the property of the soldier who captures it, but of the Army...
...parlor of her home last week and wrote a note to the world. "My four kidnappers are probably the only people on earth who don't consider me an utter fool. You have your death penalty now - so - please give them a chance." Then she raised an automatic pistol to her head and pulled the trigger...
Last week the wily Finns thought up a new scheme to get much-needed war materials. Behind the Russian front and over Leningrad their aviators scattered leaflets offering deserting Russian soldiers specific prices for their arms: 100 rubles for a pistol, 150 rubles for a rifle, 1,000 to 1,500 for a machine gun, 10,000 for a tank. The Russians were even told how to surrender...