Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famed photo of Oswald with a rifle and a pistol actually Oswald's head imposed on someone else's body...
...government has been presented with a pistol at its head," Prime Minister Harold Wilson reported to the British House of Commons. He had just been told by John Riccardo, chairman of Chrysler Corp., that if Chrysler United Kingdom Ltd. does not get massive aid -perhaps $210 million-from Wilson's government, it would pull out of Britain, adding tens of thousands to British unemployment rolls that already total 1 million...
...Click. Did Squeaky Fromme intend to assassinate Ford as he gladhanded his way through a crowd in Sacramento? Or was it all a wild publicity stunt? Several witnesses claim they heard a click when Squeaky pointed her pistol. Yet Ford, who was standing two feet away from his potential assassin, has already asserted that he has "no recollection of hearing the handgun click." The defense has now won the right to probe that further...
...nation's No. 1 sport. After the mass-performance art, the games could have seemed anticlimactic. But since China is making a concerted bid to participate in next summer's Olympics in Montreal, the National Games became unofficial Olympic trials. At least three world marks for pistol shooting were set. Not to mention standards for flash-card displays...
...leveled a gun at the President during the trip, but there were a number of sharp encounters along the way. During the Chicago visit, a policeman near the Hilton asked to look into the purse of Carmen T. Pulido, 37, and found a .25-cal. pistol. She was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, although she protested that she needed the gun for self-protection on her job as the manager of a currency-exchange outlet. "I'm no Squeaky Fromme," the woman protested. "I'm a notary public and tax accountant...