Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no special firearms program. Staff officers simply accompany the new recruits to the University rifle range and teach the men how to use a pistol...
Even this modest program, though, is a vast improvement over the pre-Tonis conditions. When Tonis took over the police, the men were carrying a variety of outdated pistols. In his first month, Tonis tried firing one pistol, but it jammed and he had to remove the clogged bullet from the gun with his pocket jackknife...
...terrorists. As he drove to his office along a narrow one-way street, his black Mercedes was suddenly blocked by four vehicles. While one young man smashed the rear window of the Mercedes with a small sledgehammer, another fired eight times at the general with a .45-cal. automatic pistol, and then escaped...
...Kathy!" were always in the air as students looked to her for guidance. She usually went braless and barefoot, her brown shoulder-length hair falling onto an orange smock. In Kathy's Back Bay apartment, police said, they found a field telephone switchboard, three rifles, a carbine, a pistol and a shotgun, along with an arsenal of ammunition. At least one item, the switchboard, was identified as belonging to the looted armory...
...Cartoonist Chester Gould often anticipates events and inventions long before they become reality. Along with Diet Smith, Tracy beat the astronauts to the moon by seven years. The intrepid detective talked into a two-way wristwatch-radio before the transistorized version was invented. Now Tracy has introduced the "humane" pistol. It fires a cartridge that on impact spurts a slippery, tranquilizing liquid that upsets the footing of a fleeing suspect and immobilizes him for half a minute-just enough time to slip on the handcuffs...