Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greenville, Del., enjoyed a game of lacrosse with friends, then gave a fellow player a hand in moving a rug. Still clad in his playing shorts, sweatshirt and tennis shoes, he leaned over the trunk of a car to make room for the rug, when three fatal pistol shots whizzed seemingly out of nowhere and hit him in the back. Shields' death was the twelfth in the series of bizarre, random "Zebra" attacks -apparently not linked with the S.L.A.-that have plagued the city for 21 terrifying weeks; six other people have been wounded. All the victims have been...
...passing pedestrians and motorists watched in horror, a tall, thin young gunman with clipped chin whiskers leaped from the Ford and raced toward the limousine, firing two pistols as he ran. One shot struck the limousine driver, who collapsed. A bodyguard sitting next to the chauffeur jumped from the front seat with an automatic pistol. He fired one shot, missing; then his weapon jammed. Three quick rounds felled him. The gunman dashed to the limousine and began pulling violently on the doors, trying to get inside. On the back seat huddled Anne, her husband, and a lady in waiting, Rowena...
...obviously saw himself as the cowboy against the Puritans. He confronted his student audience in his accustomed adversary role--well-practiced over ten years as a defender of individual rights against the majority--and went on the prowl for their weaknesses. He packed his Alabama law degree like a pistol; his work in the South became his white charger; and he mounted up in an effort to ride roughshod over Harvard's best and brightest...
...Around the World, one on one and PIG (or WAR CRIMINAL when they had a lot of time to kill). It was a little dangerous to the fish tank, and the furniture tended to get a little beat up, but at least it provided a break from the cap pistol wars they sometimes fought, and was easier on their health than swimming the river...
Crime headed the litany of ills dominating the election issues. Young's opponent was pistol-packing John Nichols, 54, a former police commissioner...