Word: pistoled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three weeks ago, for example, a muscleman named Carlo Lombardi strolled into the Raveniti Social Club, a mob hangout in Little Italy. Lombardi, who harbored a grudge against the powerful Gambino family, spied some members of the clan and immediately began blazing away with his automatic pistol. All six shots missed their mark, and Lombardi quickly fled into the night. Unruffled, the Gambinos dispatched two gunmen to track down Lombardi and then resumed their discussion of the fate of the Manfredi cousins, Phillip J. ("Little Phil") and Phillip D. ("Big Phil"), judged guilty of double-crossing a Gambino capo...
...Houston mansion. He had fallen off the third-floor roof some time during the night. With brain damage, a broken hip, broken ribs and a collapsed lung, Garrison was in no condition to explain what he was doing on the roof in the wee hours with a pistol, ammunition and over a thousand dollars in his pocket. Neither was Candy. She was locked up in her bedroom, having hysterics. Police said it was apparently all an accident-just one of those things...
Introduced by Birch Bayh, the bill defines the Saturday Night Special as a pistol no longer than six inches with a barrel no longer than three. To get around the law, a gunmaker need only produce a slightly longer revolver. In addition, the bill does not ban the sale of handguns by individuals, which is the way most criminals get their weapons in the first place. Finally, the bill includes an amendment repealing a provision of the 1968 gun-control law requiring that records be kept of anyone who buys rim-fire .22-cal. ammunition -a device enabling police...
...Road in the Catholic Bogside area of Londonderry last Monday evening, the fleas were hopping again. I first heard the detonations coming from the dockside down by the River Foyle. Two adolescent boys and a girl had entered the Chinese Society Restaurant, shooed owners and clients out with a pistol, then hidden their timed gelignite device in the kitchen. The explosion, 30 minutes later, gouged a huge hole in the building, while a spray of glass rained down from smashed windowpanes in nearby houses. As British soldiers in bulletproof vests and blue-coated Royal Ulster Constabulary men rushed...
...report, Mills slips into a trap posed by his own tight prose: no transcripts ever carried the power which he infuses into, say. Bo's description of the book's climatic scene in which he is locked in a darkened elevator with The Stick, with each pointing a loaded pistol at the other's abdomen...