Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army outpointed the Midshipmen gymnasts, 63½-to-32½, and outshot Navy's pistol marksmen...
...pillared Pharaonic Hall a group of young men saluted respectfully. The Premier paused to shake hands. Suddenly a youth in a black shirt and red tie whipped out a pistol, fired point blank at Maher Pasha. The Premier dropped. Tears ran down his cheeks. Said he: "I'm finished." Thus death, as it must to all men, came last week to Ahmed Maher Pasha...
...breakfast; each afternoon he played tennis (beating many a man much younger), or walked up & down Aiea Mountain, or hiked seven miles to a beach for a three-mile swim. The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff and Deputy CinCPac. On a private pistol range set up beside the building, Nimitz could outshoot most visiting marksmen...
...standards, he loves Jubilee, hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...
...were hauled in after the three-sided gang-fight. "They were mighty rough kids. Under the usual procedure, I would have . . . placed them in the county jail. . . but I herded the 14 boys into the chief's office and locked myself up in there with them, removed my pistol and coat. In the bunch I had two rough gang leaders. They had attained leadership with their fists and could have torn me to pieces. One was of Mexican descent. The other was Anglo-American. Both were manly kids but plenty bad-and they hated each other...