Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocks down the street, a short, muscular lawyer with piercing black eyes stepped briskly out of his office. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, rabble-rousing leader of Colombia's Liberal Party, was also luncheon-bound. As he crossed the sidewalk, a man with a pistol in his hand slipped up behind him, fired four shots into his neck and shoulders...
Bullets & Ballots. The citizens and the Star got an awakening on election day in 1934. Four people were killed by gunplay and knifings at the polls as the young, earnest Citizens group tried to do something to halt illegal voting. Pendergastlies gave a Starman a pistol-whipping about the head, chased him back to the Star. From there on it was open war, with Roy Roberts, then the Star's managing editor, planning much of the reformers' strategy. It was the beginning of Pendergast's decline & fall...
...Communists have spent years and millions telling the world that the "excesses" of the Soviet regime were to be accounted the inevitable evils of a violent transition. For such a period, fanatics like Dzerzhinsky and Yezhov were inevitable choices as wielders of the purifying pistol. The transition, however, obviously ends...
...escape, Chryssoula volunteered for front-line duty. In the retreat after the Salonika action, she marched until exhausted and fell into a ditch. "The captain I was most afraid of," she said, "came up and pointed his pistol. Then the airplanes came over. Everyone scattered. I got away...
...Vero Beach, Fla., veteran George Sisler, 54, the greatest first-baseman who ever wore spikes, got ready to manufacture a new first-baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He had a talented and versatile athlete to work on: hard-hitting, fleet-footed Pistol Pete Reiser. After two weeks of private lessons, Teacher Sisler expects to have Outfielder Reiser (who seemed to be forever crashing into the concrete outfield wall at Ebbets Field) ready to replace Jackie Robinson at first base for the Dodgers...