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Word: pistoleer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 2 ft. "Where is Bing?" Cowan demanded, as he strode into an adjoining drivers' room. There, James Green, 44, another black, tried to run and was gunned down. An Indian immigrant, Pariyarathu Varghese, 33, came running down a flight of steps and was murdered. Cowan put a pistol to the head of another black driver, Charles Haskett, with whom he worked and for whom he had once even bought lunch. Then he relented and turned away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Season of Savagery and Rage | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...going to kill himself. His secretary and his business manager, Marvin Snyder, had come over to cheer him up. Then, with Snyder still present, Prinze hung up the phone after talking with his estranged wife Katherine, reached down into the sofa's cushions, pulled out a small automatic pistol, placed it to his temple and fired. The bullet passed straight through his head. Police found a note that said he could not go on any longer. After a day in the hospital, he succumbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUICIDES: Freddie Prinze: Too Much, Too Soon | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...cream for Nicky's perforated ulcer, says he'll help him out of town. Nicky is wary, but Mikey remains steadfast. It is the best way to keep track of Nicky and make sure that he finally meets up with the fat guy who carries a pistol in a brown paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hit Men | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...which had been tracking Rees for months, finally found him visiting friends in Villanueva, 45 miles southeast of Santa Fe. When the agents strolled in, Rees was armed with a .22 pistol and a hunting knife, but put up no fight. Indeed, he had an expression of relief on his face. Later Rees told reporters, "I have no regrets, except that I am here. I bought a bar and had a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rich Man, Poor Man | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Keeping the Peace. Before a neophyte Special can sign up a client, he or she spends 98 hours in police training, shooting cardboard crooks on the pistol range, learning self-defense and boning up on details of police legal procedure. Then, after approval by the chief of police and the police commission, the trainee hires on as an apprentice to a full-fledged Special, often the officer who later sells him the beat. The traditional price is ten times the monthly revenue from the beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Police for Hire | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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