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After that night of terror, Mrs. Walker, a magazine editor, began carrying a .45-cal. pistol. She and her husband put new locks on their windows and set up lights around the yard. When alone, she slept with all the lights in the apartment turned on. A few weeks after the attack, she returned from a brief vacation to find a makeshift ladder at one of their apartment windows and the screens ripped. But the prowler, whom Mrs. Walker assumes was the rapist bent on another attack, was heard by a friend of the Walkers' and fled as police arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curse of Violent Crime | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...small island in the Caribbean, Son hides in the house of Valerian Street, a retired candy manufacturer from Philadelphia. Street's wife Margaret, a faded Maine beauty queen, stumbles on the intruder in her closet. Her screams alarm the household. Sydney, the family butler, procures the family pistol and investigates. He reappears with his quarry: a ragged black apparition in Rastafarian dreadlocks. Valerian offers the man a drink and invites him to eat the collapsed remains of a souffle. Jadine, Sydney's visiting niece, stares at him with mink eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Diamond | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...late at night. You're alone in your room. There's a knock at the door. You open it to find an FTD delivery man holding a bouquet of flowers. He reaches into his pocket and nonchalantly pulls out a blue water pistol. "You're dead," he says...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Mccarthy and Leslie J. Smith, S | Title: 70 Students to Play Assassin As 'Killer' Begins at Harvard | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

...object of "Killer" is "to kill without being killed." For a two-dollar registration fee, participants receive a plastic water pistol and an official entry card with the name of their intended target. To "kill" his victim, the assassin must show his water pistol and say. "You're dead...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Mccarthy and Leslie J. Smith, S | Title: 70 Students to Play Assassin As 'Killer' Begins at Harvard | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

...pistol arm and potent bat (.370 lifetime) that graced EIBL diamonds from 1969-71 were good enough to earn Varney a shot with the Chicago White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete Varney: Recalling The Miracle Comeback | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

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