Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Game Bird. In Houston, duck-hungry Stanley J. Bonner was shot in the knee, by a duck which collided with his pistol hand...
...Briand. Across the Seine, in a room on the Avenue Victor Emmanuel III, another world, figure wrote three short notes. One of them ended: "Goodbye now and thanks. I.K." The big, round-faced man rose from his desk, smoothed out the unmade bedclothes, lay down, shot himself with a pistol just below the heart...
...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...
...Minister's quiet summer home, Chequers, the Russian brought a Russian chambermaid. In stiff disapproval the regular Chequers maid looked on while the Russian woman made Molotov's bed. The eyes of the English maid nearly popped when the pillow was lifted. There lay a long, fat pistol...
George Bernard Shaw's advice of the week was that the U.S. should pull out of Japan, letting the threat of atomic bombing do the rest of the job. "Sitting in a country with a pistol in hand will only waste young people's lives," he said. Doubting that this advice would be heeded, he predicted cheerfully, "of course there will be another...