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Word: pistoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Finally, choose to use a pistol...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...office of every U.S. general in SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) in Britain last week went a neat, sealed package from Washington. Inside each package was an elegant calfskin belt with pistol holster and a big shiny buckle embossed with the U.S. seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Brass Knuckles | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Mexico City's only opera house. Promised Government support for his festival had failed to materialize. One of his leading singers, Basso Carlos Rufino, had recently shot an amatory rival in a Mexico City movie theater and was giving rehearsals a discouragingly defensive tone by packing a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart con Carne | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...that dinky pistol carried by General George Marshall on his visit to the Normandy beachhead is a Service model .45-caliber automatic, then my bazooka is a popgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...29th Division: Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt, 49, West Pointer, cavalryman, son of a U.S. general; an expert marksman who once challenged any man in the division to a shooting match with rifle or pistol for a $2 side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Normandy Line-Up | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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