Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became embroiled hi a court fight with her over use of the funds. Cash also recounts the story of the night that Loeb spent in jail on an alienation of affections charge (settled out of court, although Cash insists Loeb was guilty), and the day he pulled out a pistol and shot the office cat dead. Loeb later told employees, through a spokesman, that the cat was suffering a convulsion and he wanted to put it out of its misery...
...courier, Michel Moukarbel, was on his way from Beirut with money and instructions for an agent in Paris. Moukarbel was arrested in France and led three DST agents to Carlos' apartment on the Rue Toullier, near the Sorbonne. Confronted with the informer, Carlos pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired five shots. Moukarbel and two of the agents were killed; the third was critically wounded...
...Sacramento the following day, Lynette Alice ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, faced sentencing for having tried to shoot Ford with a .45-cal. pistol in the city's Capitol Park last Sept. 5. Fromme, a member of the bizarre "family" of convicted Murderer Charles Manson, carried over her arm the same red robe she had worn on that day, as well as an apple ("For you, your honor," she said when U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. MacBride noticed it). After U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes recommended severe punishment because she was full of "hate and violence," Squeaky hurled the apple...
...Britain and cashier its 25,000 employees there. For a while it seemed that Riccardo, whose sometimes brusque manner long ago earned him the nickname "the Flamethrower," would have to do just that. Wilson denounced the Riccardo ultimatum, angrily protesting that Chrysler had left the government "with a pistol at its head." But last week in a startling, if characteristically Wilsonian, about-face, the Prime Minister agreed to help out Chrysler after...
...apartment. At about 4 a.m., neighbors on the floor below heard loud noises and complained twice to the front desk. Finally, a doorman knocked at Knight's apartment. A man answered, saying they were practicing karate. Around 4:30 a.m., the three strangers, one with a pistol, woke Rosemary but were unable to rouse her husband. The men ordered Rosemary-who was undressed-to help them search for a wall safe. When she reached the master bedroom, she saw Knight lying tied up on the floor and moaning. Soon two of the men departed with some loose money...