Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armored car manned by blond Germans of an international brigade stood on the side of the road. 'If an officer tries to go back, shoot your pistol,' a Spanish colonel instructed one of the Germans. The internationals were coming up. We watched fieldpieces hauled in among the olive trees and put into position. Near the road the Czechoslovakian crew of an antiaircraft battery was working quickly and efficiently...
...record after three months as a licensed pilot, an advertiser who climbed to a vice-presidency after 13 years with Manhattan's Federal Advertising Agency. Then he escaped to the French Riviera to write popular stories about a Scottish engineer. His spare time he passed in fencing and pistol shooting until he found scaly targets more interesting...
...toothless common-law wife Frau Dore Koerwin. Three years later he discovered on Marchena the twisted, mummified body of Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, castoff tuberculous lover of a Galapagan lady, the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol...
...Pistol shrimp, which snap their claws with a report as loud as that of a cap pistol...
...soft-pedaling propaganda and modern meanings, by roaring straight ahead with pistol shots, slugfests, savage hysteria, explosions of Gallic wrath, Haiti becomes two hours' worth of good old-fashioned theatre. But one modern meaning arises spontaneously: When the Haitians win their freedom from the French at the end, the Negroes in the audience burst into frenzied, deep-throated applause...