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...casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...
...evidence everywhere were the King's bodyguards, four swarthy, husky men in short, blue, lace-trimmed jackets, each carrying a sef (sword), khanjar (dagger) and pistol, all of which, Abdullah Balkhair explained, were merely ceremonial. They stood in sharp contrast to a few others in the party, beneath whose traditional robes reporters spotted signs of a more modern dress; one Saudi's robe flapped open to reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur...
Night of the Hunter. In Cincinnati, after he missed a potshot at a cop, was caught carrying a loaded pistol, flashlight, gloves and burlap sack, John C. Davis drew a one-to-20-year sentence despite his explanation that he was outfitted merely for "hunting crickets...
...damaging to our friendship with Great Britain and France." Dulles, he said, should prepare a State Department White Paper reviewing "his conduct of our foreign relations in the Middle East, at least since the time when he visited General Naguib in Cairo and gave him a silver-plated pistol...
What made the soldiers' task simpler was that Cypriots were talking-a sign, in the eyes of Field Marshal Sir John Harding, that they are weary of fruitless terrorism. A man found in possession of a pistol (under the emergency regulations, an offense punishable by death) volunteered to tell of an underground hideout. After a hard search on terraced hillside vineyards, the soldiers found a 2-ft.-by-2-ft. opening leading down to a 15-ft.-by-10-ft. subterranean room. Three terrorists, smoked out of this room, told of other secret places. A total of 17 hideouts...