Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard ROTC Pistol Medal" to William O. Sweet '41; "Freshman ROTC Pistol Medal" to Harbone W. Stuart...
...well, Sorokin became sickened by the cruelty and irresponsibility of the anarchists and turned counter-revolutionary. He spent fifty days in the Petropavlovskaia Fortress, another word for Bastille, for having "attempted to assassinate Lenin." It turned out that what they thought was a pistol shot had only been a tire blowout, but he was kept in prison for good measure. Writing anti-government pamphlets and articles was not a healthy occupation in Russia in 1918, and soon Sorokin found himself sentenced to death. At the last minute he was saved by a combination of luck and the work...
...when a young man he had never seen before came in. The young man took one look at Gabriel Avila Camacho, drew a gun and cried: "I've been looking for you!" Then he began to beat Captain Avila Camacho about the head with the butt of his pistol. Young Avila Camacho seized the gun, turned it on his assailant, shot him dead. Then he drove away...
...Toronto's Sherbourne United Church, which was to get the goodies if the Babe failed to show up, and Plumber Wright's cousin Charles Barkworth, who was out to break the will. Cousin Charles and supporters told strange tales of Plumber Wright: how he kept a pistol on his table while he ate, how he deceived small children into thinking moth balls were candy, how he threatened to water his father's corpse when his mother suggested watering the lilies around the old man's bier...
Edwin Packard Halsey, former assistant in American History here, was found dead yesterday at the home of his father-in-law at Haverford, Pennsylvania, the United Press reported last night. Police said Halsey had apparently shot himself with a target pistol...