Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...
...follow in the middle of the road had stepped aside. The man behind the pistol remained silent, and Sawyer drove away fast...
Beck thought the Wobblies were crazy. He considered them dynamite-loving, song-singing romantics who bayed for the class struggle, but never seemed to know where they were going. But employers who had pistol-whipped Wobblies out of town had no more charitable reaction to more sensible union men with sensible ideas. In the hard world of labor organization there was no substitute for power and little power without violence...
...bare hands, tossed it out a copilot's open window. Despite his searing burns, Erwin lived to have the Medal of Honor pinned on his bandages. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, of New York, severely wounded on Saipan, refused to retreat, was left propped against a tree, with a pistol containing eight rounds. Later, when his body and empty pistol were found, eight Japanese lay dead around...
...easy--watch how Elmer does it." End Coach Elmer Madar grinned sheepishly, hitched up his pants, and charged the dummy. There was a sincere smack and the weight on the end of the pulley jerked upward and slammed into the iron bar with the impact of a pistol shot...