Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture taken with the six-man pistol team of the White House police force, resplendent in new uniforms and unrecognizably pleasant faces. (White House policemen are famed as dourpusses...
...something different about the Legion. It was not that they behaved any better than they used to. The 125,000 visiting Legion men engulfed Boston, held up traffic, misdirected traffic, stopped traffic. They drank, sang, played practical jokes dear to middle-aged men on a tear. They squirted water pistols on girls' dresses, stockings (one fiend used 10? perfume in his pistol). They used electric shockers (disguised as brief cases, as canes) to electrify feminine rumps (some fiends used rubber bands, which stung). With canes they impartially h'isted the skirts of women, young or old, who entered...
Sixty-seven years ago, when the National Rifle Association held its first tournament, sportsmen ran the show. But in 1903, when Congress recognized the N. R. A. and appropriated funds to help stage a bigger, broader tournament, the national rifle and pistol matches became the War Department's baby. Today, through the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the War Department spends $500,000 a year to conduct the Camp Perry matches-sending to the tournament, in addition to picked marksmen from each branch of the service, civilian and National Guard teams representing each State...
...past three weeks, gunbugs have been peppering targets along Camp Perry's two-mile firing line-nearly 1,000 of them at a time. Most important of the 105 events: those that determine the National small-bore rifle championship, the National pistol championship, the National military (.30-calibre) rifle championship...
...pistol championship (based on performance with .22, .38 and .45-calibre pistols, using each in slow, timed and rapid fire) went to 30-year-old Harry Reeves, who scored 848 out of a possible 900. Onetime Marine, now a Detroit policeman and member of Detroit's world-record-holding pistol team, Reeves also holds-with his teammate Alfred Hemming, No. 1 in N. R. A. rankings-most of the world's records for two-man teams...