Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squalls forced the spluttering Navy bomber down onto the dark seas. When it sank, the three men scrambled into a rubber life raft, 8 ft. by 4 ft. They had only their clothes, a .45 automatic pistol, a pocketknife, pliers and a length of ½-inch Manila line...
With My Crossbow. That night an albatross landed on the raft. Aldrich killed it with the pistol and Dixon, the only one who could swim, dived overboard and retrieved it. The men ate the organs and the entrails, but put the unplucked flesh away to save. In the night it glowed with phosphorescence and Dixon threw it overboard. That was a tough thing to do. But during the night it rained again. "The drawers worked fine," Dixon said. "We all had a good drink...
...about half of the students will demonstrate various types of Naval Training, while the remainder will show the guests around. Demonstrations will include such thing as flag hosting, signaling and fleet tactics, semaphore signaling, loading and pointing the four inch gun, a lecture on mines, and rifle and pistol firing on the range in the basement...
...dock-the wreckage of Japanese planes and of U.S. planes destroyed by the Japs at Pearl Harbor-was a sinister reminder to West Coasters of what neglect and apathy can do in wartime. There was heard again the old muttered word, called up out of the smoky history of pistol battles, its syllables still rumbling like the horse hoofs of a posse ". . . Vigilantes...
When they dropped into the Gerrard's Cross police station to report their intentions, they ran into an eccentric Briton, Sergeant Donald Robbie, who whipped out a pistol and backed them against the wall. But, having disillusioned the Sergeant, they spent an agreeable two hours strolling the town. Everywhere they talked snatches of German and their Germanic English. In a workmen's pub the proprietor recognized one of them as a former vacuum-cleaner salesman named Harry Pringle who had sometimes called before the war. Said the proprietor to Harry Pringle: "What are you doing in that getup...