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Word: pistoled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high mountain whine Billy Hull screamed, "God dang you, don't you speak to me!" He pulled a pistol from his left armpit. Stepp turned to run. Hull shot him "right atween the galluses." On the ground he had the prudence to shoot Stepp again. Then Billy Hull crossed the river, and back in Tennessee no one ever said another word to him about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Yesterday, in the hand-to-hand fight, I was separated from my men and surrounded by the Bolsheviks. Three of them, armed with automatic pistols, started hunting me. I killed two of them and the third ran away. Thank heaven for that! ... By that time my old pistol, which wasn't very good as you know, was so hot that it broke to pieces. ... I need a big Mauser revolver, caliber 9. If you are unable to get this size, and if you can find a Nagan revolver or a big Colt pistol, send this with at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Sisu | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Died. Clement Cresson Kite, 21, Yale senior, Philadelphia socialite, star for three seasons of Yale's hockey team; by his own hand (pistol); in Radnor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...shook hands all around before retiring. He asked not to be disturbed that night, sat up late writing letters to his wife, parents and the Ambassador. His fellow officers did not need to be told what his aide found next morning: Langsdorff dead, with a bullet from his own pistol through his forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Voluntary Elimination | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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