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Word: pistoleer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooded Prince. Angry figures emerged from the damaged Alfa. Waving pistols, they threatened to fire unless the prince got out of the car. Unimpressed by the threat, Alfredo slammed the Fiat into reverse-only to smash into a second Alfa that the kidnapers had brought along as their backup car. Finally, two of the gunmen forced the prince into the less damaged of the two Alfas. Although he was hooded, D'Angerio could tell that they were going too fast, and he yelled at them to slow down. They refused and, unable to spot a curve because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Gang That Couldn't Kidnap Straight | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...code requires that a husband avenge an insult to his wife's honor, so Leone accedes and presses Guido, who also happens to be his good friend, into serving as his second. Guido issues an unconditional challenge, only too slyly aware that the marquis is both a crack pistol shot and a master swordsman. But Leone makes the final move on the chessboard of fate. By the iron rules of the game, the second must fight if the principal, for whatever reason, refuses. Leone refuses. And Guido...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Chessboard of Fate | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...Arabic imagery last week as the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (TIME cover, Nov. 11) concluded an extraordinary 80-minute speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Arafat, dressed in a fawn windbreaker and brown trousers and wearing both his familiar black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh and a pistol holster, which aides insisted was empty, finished his perorations, walked away from the mottled-marble rostrum and clasped his hands over his head in a boxer's victory stance. Led by delegates from Arab nations, the crowded Assembly Hall-the seats were predictably empty at the table reserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Guns and Olive Branches | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...later the grand jury handed up another indictment, charging Merritts and the six others with receiving $120,000 in kickbacks from a sheet-metal company and a school-equipment supplier. The second indictment also charged that Merritts tried to extort $30,000 from the equipment supplier by sticking a pistol in his chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: East St. Louis: Indicted | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Lord Harlech and archetypal playboy of London's swinging, kinky '60s; apparently by his own hand (gunshot); in London. Ormsby Gore, who worked as a waiter and male model, was found by his sister Alice, 22, in his silver-painted West London apartment, a .22-cal. pistol lying by his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 18, 1974 | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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