Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have got a pistol at our heads," said Alan Fisher, head of the Public Employees Union. "I think we shall see a lot of difficulties in the next few months." The first signs of revolt came from Members of Parliament, who have forgone a pay raise since 1971 to set an example for the rest of the country. The M.P.s get about ?5,000 ($11,000) in pay and allowances. Some are so hard-pressed that important votes must be scheduled in midweek because Members cannot afford to stay even in cheap London lodgings for more than three nights...
Harry Thaw empties his pistol into the face of Architect Stanford White, the lover of Thaw's showgirl wife Evelyn Nesbit. White goes to his grave and Thaw to an insane asylum. But Doctorow has his own plans for Evelyn. Down from her red velvet swing, she drifts to the immigrant slums of New York's Lower East Side, where her social consciousness is raised by anarchist Emma Goldman. Sigmund Freud confronts the pleasure principle at Coney Island and cannot get back to Vienna fast enough...
...been used to compel members to resign in order to dissolve lawfully elected assemblies," she declared. "Agitations have surcharged the atmosphere, leading to violent incidents." Although she did not mention the apparent attempt on her own life in March, when a Hindi newspaper editor was arrested with a loaded pistol as he entered the courtroom in which Mrs. Gandhi was testifying, the Prime Minister did cite the "brutal murder" of Railways Minister L.N. Mishra in January and the unsuccessful assassination attempt on India's Chief Justice three months later...
David escapes from his dank cell and gets out into the countryside. Loaded down with tins of canned goods and an automatic pistol, he starts to make his way to a small mountain cabin which, it turns out, has already been destroyed by a natural disaster. This piece of information is relayed by an ursine eccentric named Thomas (Philippe Noiret) who encounters David in the middle of his trek. Thomas offers David shelter, food and his wife, a pert sculptress named Julia (Marlene Jobert)- although he reserves the right to act wounded when his guest takes...
This underground activity burst into public notice this spring when pistol-packing ex-Marine Alexander Joseph, 39, led 12 of his wives and 15 other families-all members of Joseph's Church of Jesus Christ of Solemn Assembly-to establish a settlement on a 2,000-acre tract of federal land in southern Utah. Before the Bureau of Land Management began proceedings to evict them, they had put up ten buildings, started a dam and planted vegetables. A federal court is now deciding whether they are homesteaders or simply squatters...