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Word: pistoleer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining members of the bomb-slinging Bonnie und Clyde gang (TIME, June 12). So far, six have been caught. One was Gudrun Ensslin, 31, a minister's daughter and former student of German literature, who was captured in a Hamburg boutique after a saleswoman noticed a pistol stuffed into her jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Europe's Cold Civil War | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...large-caliber wisecrack, like the horse pistol, is part of America's past. As the Norman Mailer-Germaine Greer exchange indicated recently, the snub-nosed innuendo aimed below the belt is today's favored weapon. When quips were quips even a President of the United States could get them off. Remember the British diplomat who told Lincoln that "English gentlemen never black their own boots"? Lincoln looked up from buffing his own and replied, "Whose boots do you black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Late George Aptly | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...smudge of gunsmoke. The candidate would capsize backward, the cameras would catch a wild, stricken frieze as his young wife knelt over him, staining her suit with his blood, and the bodyguards, an instant too late, would wrestle down some strange little drifter with a pistol welded to his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: George Wallace's Appointment in Laurel | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...sooner had the bullets from Arthur Bremer's pistol found their mark in George Wallace than another kind of withering fire was directed at the U.S. Declared New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The insane attack upon George Wallace is yet another terrible and inevitable example of the violence of our nation. From the needless neglect of our most pressing national needs, we have reaped a harvest of division, despair and death." In his New York Times column, Tom Wicker searched for an explanation of the assassinations among "violent western movies, the organized violence of professional football, the endless lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Did America Shoot Wallace? | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...their malevolence revealed. With their henchmen, however, the situation is different. They boldly flaunt their fugitive status and are terrifyingly eager to implement the merchant's plans for destruction. A henchman (Tatsuys Nakadai) of the sake merchant epitomizes the hyperbole. The only person in the town who owns a pistol, he takes complete advantage of the fact. With obvious pleasure he flourishes the tool and when he kills with it, observes the death with cruel joy. At film's end, in typical badman style, he pleads to be allowed to die holding his gun and after his request has been...

Author: By Louise A. Reid, | Title: A Fistful of Yen | 5/19/1972 | See Source »

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