Word: pistoleer
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Chen said that the first assailant ran into the store at about 8:30 p.m., pointed a large pistol at his head and demanded that he open the cash register...
...issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The 23-year-old landed a piece in Judge three months later, and he was soon on the staff. His earliest contribution was a series on a croupier, utterly impassive as chaos explodes around him either at work (a gambler puts a pistol to his forehead) or at home (the kids attack each other while the croupier rakes in a plate from across the dinner table). His fascination with wordplay paraded itself in his oddments of fictional language: "lurch," "gog" (what is a gog?), be-"fuddle." Within a year he had added a byline...
...police are beginning to catch up. Dhahir proudly shows off his new $500 Austrian-made Glock pistol, now standard issue for Iraq's police. "The accuracy is great, especially at night," he says, pointing out glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...
...Clark has plenty of Southern tales. He told me about blasting cans in a crick--"You'd throw the beer can and take the pistol, and bang"--and, having grown up in Arkansas myself, I recounted freezing duck hunts on the Cache River. But Clark trumped me. He launched into a "Mama-thon"--how "beautiful" she was, how "capable." There was even a Faulknerian touch. "She wasn't good with babies, let's put it that way," he said of the late Veneta Clark, who became a working mother after Clark's dad died of a heart attack when...
...Saddam Hussein created around himself a legend of physical and political prowess. He demanded that his followers be willing to fight and die for him and acted as though he'd do the same for his country. So when he surrendered to U.S. soldiers without a shot from the pistol at his side, Arab diplomats and journalists say that the once admiring Arab masses were dismayed and embarrassed by his meekness. It suggested that legendary toughness was just that: legend...