Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pistol Pete didn't have his best year, for he spent most of his time trotting to first base after four cautious pitches. But when the pitchers had to come to him, Varney delivered 23 runs, and runs were a premium for the scrappy squad this fall...
...welfare benefits and was turned down, which acquaintances say thoroughly embittered him. Then there was the ar senal of weapons found in the Sullivan labor camp and Juan's 1971 Chevrolet van: two hunting knives, two butcher knives, a double-bladed ax, a club with possible bloodstains, pistol shells and a machete. Police also discovered empty graves that had apparently been prepared but left unfilled...
...killers' car was easily recognized by witnesses. One of the three white men in it was a local farm hand. When the police picked them up four hours later in a town only 18 miles away, they still had loaded weapons with them, including a .22-cal. pistol with one round expended...
...Elroms' apartment building. In a ground floor flat directly under the consul general's, they methodically overpowered and trussed up twelve people while waiting for Elrom's predictable 1 p.m. arrival. When the diplomat arrived and resisted, they slugged him on the head with a pistol butt and carried him off, wrapped in a gray blanket in the back seat of a car. Six hours later the kidnapers announced that Elrom would be executed by 5 p.m. last Thursday unless "all revolutionary guerrillas are set free." At the time, fewer than half a dozen were in custody...
Last February, Plainclothes Patrolman Frank Serpico and two other New York City policemen knocked at the door of a suspected Brooklyn heroin pusher. When the door opened a crack, Serpico shouldered his way in only to be met by a .22-cal. pistol slug crashing into his face. Somehow he survived, although there are still bullet fragments in his head, causing dizziness and permanent deafness in his left ear. Almost as painful is the suspicion that he, and perhaps his partners, may well have been set up for the shooting by other policemen. For Serpico, 35, has been waging...