Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Determined to carry off the job on their own, Leila and her friend waited until the plane had completed its climbout from Amsterdam. With a war whoop, they leaped from their seats, pulled out the grenades and a pistol, and raced forward to the first-class cabin. There they ran into an El Al steward and an Israeli security agent. As the pilot put the Boeing 707 jetliner into a sharp bank in order to throw the hijackers off balance, passengers overpowered the girl and bound her with neckties. Meanwhile the Israelis fought the male skyjacker in a desperate hand...
...Sinatra's parting shot as he stormed out of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The singer wanted the baccarat stakes raised from $8,000 a hand to $16,000 and he wanted more credit. Turned down, he began cursing and throwing chips; whereupon a hotel executive drew a pistol. Sinatra left, snarling: "The mob will take care of you." The law responded with a couple of old saws of its own. Sheriff Ralph Lamb ordered that before Sinatra may sing in Las Vegas again, "he must come downtown and get a work permit." District Attorney George Franklin Jr. added...
...even to go to church"; Messaros says he straps his holster on before he brushes his teeth. "Fear is something in your mind that has to be overcome," Messaros says. Boston is equally stoic: "Hell, I could die tomorrow at the movies." Still, both feel that their equipment-pistol, blackjack, nightstick, helmet-could be improved upon by putting a sawed-off shotgun in their car. No need to point it at anyone, they say-"just that you come out of the car, and it comes with...
...good technocrat, he agreed to the use of forced labor in order to bolster armament production. After the plot to assassinate Hitler failed on July 20, 1944, Speer briefly toyed with ways to kill his Führer. But, he admits, "I could never have confronted Hitler pistol in hand. Face to face, his magnetic power over me was too great up to the very last...
...would-be liberators dead in the gun battle that thwarted the escape (TIME, August 17). But a routine investigation by the police of the weapons used in the attempt turned up some startling news last week. Three of the guns-a .380-cal. Browning automatic pistol, and two .30-cal. Plainfield carbines-belonged to Angela Davis, 26, the brilliant black former U.C.L.A. assistant philosophy professor fired last year because she was a Communist. Davis openly professed her Communist party membership, and a conservative majority of the California board of regents blocked her reappointment as a teacher amid a stormy debate...