Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listed on the passenger roster as T. Johnson and armed with a hand grenade, pistol and prewritten instructions for the pilot, McCoy had no trouble hijacking the United Airlines, Denver-Los Angeles 727 to San Francisco. United met his demands: $500,000 in small bills, six hours worth of fuel and four parachutes. With an expert's efficiency, McCoy then directed the pilot on a wandering eastward course and parachuted over Provo, Utah...
...Segard and his wife Evelyne, 27, stood charged with 31 armed robberies. Jubin, moreover, was accused of a double murder and rape. While Judge Magnan reviewed their dossiers, Evelyne opened her purse, ostensibly to get a handkerchief. Before anyone could say "Search la femme" she whipped out a pistol. "Don't try anything," Evelyne warned the stunned guards, as she handed two other guns to Jubin and her husband. "I've got one bullet for the judge and one for myself." Within moments, the gendarmes were wearing their own handcuffs and lying face down on the floor, their...
Joey first witnessed a gang murder in his early teens. After the victim was hauled away, he studied the scene, counted the bullet holes and took notes on how the killing must have been done. He began packing a pistol about the same time. Later, he affected the black shirt and white tie of Killer Richard Widmark in the movie Kiss of Death. He saw the movie so many times he knew all its lines. He spent hours in front of a mirror, trying to look as tough as Widmark-and he succeeded. He had a mercurial temper and acted...
...place where old mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy, pistol-packing fantasist and medical-school dropout. He has also grown obsessed with the legend of Geronimo, the Apache warrior who lived by his own laws. By the time Hannah's rascally hero moves on from Elvis Presley to the murder of Medgar Evers, he has gone the route from private inrage...
...gauchistes. But they did denounce the Overney killing as "an extensive exercise in political provocation for the benefit of the government." For its part, the government wavered for a few days and then indicted Tramoni for homicide. Unlike the unarmed Renault guards, he had used his personal pistol to shoot Overney...