Word: pistoled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where they were rescued. His daughter's husband, Pham Van Tinh, a Vietnamese air force pilot, escaped separately from Tan Son Nhut airbase. Under heavy fire, he made a dash for a twin-engine cargo plane, shot the lock off the door with his pistol and flew into Thailand without maps or direction, following the shoreline. Tinh did not know his wife got out until he spotted her in a Guam mess hall last week...
...were aboard took pictures of the damaged tail area while the plane was still aloft. But when South Vietnamese soldiers looted the crash site, they destroyed the film as well as the flight-data recorder. The looters also stripped an injured flight engineer, pinned in the wreckage, of his pistol, watch, wallet, shoes and socks...
...feeds the manuscript of Eilert's book to the flames, Ibsen has her say, "I am burning your baby." Jackson gives the line the emotional urgency of someone tossing away old telephone bills into the wastebasket. When she takes her own life with her father's pistol, it should be a stark and moving epiphany. Jackson makes it seem like a one-minute ad campaign for stricter gun control...
...increasing by 2.5 million a year. The result has been carnage. Handguns are the weapons in more than half of the murders committed in the U.S. According to U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, about one of every four aggravated assaults and one of every three robberies involves a pistol...
...years; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. A taciturn lifelong bachelor, Tolson joined the fledgling bureau in 1928 and soon became what Hoover called "my strong right arm." Though his title was associate director (he was responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar's bulletproof Cadillac, his meals, his afternoons at the race tracks, and inherited the bulk...