Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree I think you are," he wrote to George Washington, "it is my duty frankly to tell you so, and yours to listen to me with patience"). Indeed, when 20 Patriots gathered threateningly around his pulpit, he seized the group's leader by the collar, "and with my cocked pistol in the other hand, assuring him that if any violence was offered to me I would instantly blow his brains out." But Boucher has given up the struggle and returned to England...
...sident Kennedy for lunch. Strolling along the right bank of the Seine toward his blue sedan, he failed to notice two men wearing sunglasses, who picked up stride behind him. Suddenly, one of them, a husky six-footer in a beret, caught up. He pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired three shots at point-blank range, hitting Zenteno in the head and back. As the killers ran away, the ambassador fell dead to the sidewalk...
...royal wave. Not until newspapers published photos of the incident did anyone notice the handgun tucked into his belt, apparently in violation of Canadian protocol against firearms on foreign dignitaries. "Visitors aren't supposed to do this, but what can you do?" grumbled a Trudeau aide after the pistol-packing monarch had left for home. "You can hardly frisk a King...
Their typical response to a crisis was to call a meeting, during which at least one of them must have been taking notes at all times, to hear W&B tell it. The crises (the Saturday Night Massacre, the Judiciary Committee's impeachment vote, the subpoenas, the "smoking pistol") are the places in the narrative where W&B are strongest, where their style best fits the content. That style, not surprisingly, is newspaper style: short sentences, short paragraphs, plenty of facts, active verbs. In these sections, W&B are invincible--you find yourself damaging the pages from turning them...
Crime in white Salisbury has always been low, and guerrilla terrorism has not yet touched the capital. But most whites pack a pistol in the house and some (illegally) in the glove compartment of the car. Distrust of domestic servants is growing; the woman who has a foreign houseboy from Malawi or South Africa is considered lucky. "They're, well, more dependable," says a secretary who lives in one of the newer white suburbs named, perhaps prophetically, Gun Hill...