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Word: pistoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tenant farmer named William ("Spud") Howell. Then Amy was put on the stand. She told how she and Big Duck and their baby and two cousins were on their way home in their car at night and how a gang of men "with white stuff on them" and "pistol guns" had stopped their car, and shot Robert Mallard dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Justice In Toombs County | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Baker was found dying of a pistol bullet wound through the head early yesterday shortly after his jeep wrecked. He had been riding in the moonlight along a lonely dirt road, with pretty Thelma Griffin, a young divorced tavern car hop who had met him only a few hours before at a night club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Suspect 'Accident' in Florida Death of Baker Heir | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...state attorney said "it is very possible" that the discharge of the pistol was accidental. He emphasized, however, that a suicide theory has not been discarded. A coroner's jury last night ruled that Baker was killed by a pistol held by an unknown party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Suspect 'Accident' in Florida Death of Baker Heir | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...survivor heard the "agonized screams" of wounded and dying comrades, and single pistol shots-coups de grace administered by Germans who walked among the fallen victims after the machine-gunning stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Clemency | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Choice of Weapons. In Norfolk, Va., Court Clerk Betty Jean Woolard reported that a woman, told to wait an hour for a pistol permit, had flounced out saying: "No, that would be too late. I guess I'll have to use a knife after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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