Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks ago a fanatically patriotic young Frenchman, Paul Collette, put the pistol to two of France's German-serving arch-collaborationists, onetime Premier Pierre Laval and Editor Marcel ("Why Die for Danzig?") Déat of L'Oeuvre (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week Editor Déat, shot in the throat and belly, was nonetheless able to write an editorial, which he facetiously titled Impressions of an Assassinated Man, saying that his shooting was "troublesome" because his "last articles came near to being posthumous...
...games at Camp Haan, Calif, two sweating runners who delivered messages from a front-line unit to a National Guard captain forgot their manners. They made no salutes, sirred no "sirs." Better-trained, a third messenger saluted, pistol-shot his heels, intoned: "Private Vetters, serving in the capacity of a messenger, reporting with a message from Lieut. Smith...
...Army's new carbine will be short enough (36 in.), light enough (about 5 Ib.) to replace the famous but erratic .45 pistol as a small arm for officers and noncoms. It will also give infantrymen, paratroopers, cavalrymen, tankers, machine gunners an effective supplementary weapon. Designed for rapid fire (either semiautomatic, like the Garand rifle, or full automatic, like a machine gun), it will enormously increase the amount of lead the U.S. Army can spit at its enemies...
...Town Hall the German commander unslung his service pistol and laid it on the Burgomaster's desk with a flourish. With an equal flourish Cock Sparrow Max unslung his service fountain pen and laid it beside the pistol. He refused, however, to shake hands...
...Belmonte held Dictator David Toro at the point of a pistol until Toro resigned in favor of Lieut. Colonel German Busch. Rewarded by being made Chief of Police, then Minister of the Interior, Tough Guy Belmonte at length grew too tough for his boss, was sent away to Berlin...