Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past that is almost as bad as the ones he has been hearing about his Hanoverian relatives. Breaking point of his German adventures is when he sees how an old baron avenges the seduction of his niece and her daughter by a lecherous nobleman. Covering the lovers with a pistol, the baron reads Old Testament verse, orders the lecher to undress his mistress, then slits his eyeballs...
...balloon but a cluster of small ones. It was his theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature of an experiment to test the efficacy of the method. Prof. Piccard took off from Rochester, Minn., ascended...
...Without apparent warning, there is a terrific roar of pistol shots, and men in the front ranks of the marchers go down like grass before a scythe. The camera catches approximately a dozen falling simultaneously in a heap. The roar of the police pistols lasts perhaps two or three seconds. Instantly the police charge on the marchers with riot sticks flying...
...preview of Woman Chases Man, the audience's response to incidents like this was eminently satisfactory. Best sequences: Travis applying for a job; B. J. cooking hunter's thrush; the fight for the pen with which Kenneth is to sign the contract parodying the fight for the pistol which is the great traditional ending of Westerns...
Between 1865, the year after he married Laura Spelman, a Cleveland schoolteacher, and 1872, he evolved and put into prompt practice the basic principle on which Standard Oil achieved its power- buy out competitors at pistol point or destroy them if they refuse to sell. Monopoly of oil was his objective almost from the start. The pistol he used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate...