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Word: pistoleer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week in Detroit, a lawyer in a Hall of Justice courtroom inexplicably drew a gun and pointed it at the judge and a witness. The judge was not carrying the .38 caliber pistol that he usually packs, but three policemen in the courtroom drew their guns and killed the lawyer. A few minutes later, in a luggage shop in downtown Detroit, the owner and his clerk were discovered neatly trussed and executed, apparently in a robbery. A little after that, a prominent black psychiatrist was found dead in the trunk of his car. And still later that evening, police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder City | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...dynamite high," says a Boston dealer who carries a pistol because of the trade's hazards. "You feel like Adam, and God is blowing life into your nostrils." Some users claim that it has aphrodisiac properties. Cokeheads typically talk a lot, feel energetic and self-confident until the drug wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tyrannical King Coke | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...only manage 11th overall. Bobby Cochran of the U.S. Olympic team and the University of Vermont, who had reached the peak of his form a couple of weeks before with a World Cup victory in the Giant Slalom at Heavenly Valley, Calif., was skiing hotter than a two-dollar pistol and left the rest of the racers more than a second and a half behind...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Carter, Steele Take Baths in USSA Ski Races | 4/11/1973 | See Source »

Against the best field of the whole series at the Dick Springer Memorial Giant slalom at Mammoth Mountain, on April 7, Steele finished 13th, and stood 12th after his first run. Skiing hotter than a dollar pistol, Eric Poulsen of the U.S. ski team won that event by over two seconds...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Carter, Steele Take Baths in USSA Ski Races | 4/11/1973 | See Source »

There were partial victories. When interrogators put a pistol to Captain Milligan's head to force him to give some intelligence, he gambled that none of the officers present understood English and wrote nonsense after each question. Navy Captain James Stockdale never broke. Asked for information about U.S. ships, he drew a picture of an aircraft carrier with a swimming pool and 300-ft. keel. Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain III once listed the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers as the members of his squadron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: At Last the Story Can Be Told | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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