Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harassment of Negro children, they found themselves facing hard-eyed policemen and barricades, backed by a city of conscience aroused as rarely before. At one point a Negro minister escorting a little girl from school was bombarded with stones; he turned upon the white crowd and drew a pistol. The police arrested him, but he was quickly freed on bond. After the minister made a public statement regretting his resort to force, one of the arresting officers spoke with a kind of tolerance that was different from the previous day's. "These people," he said, "have been pushed pretty...
King took the advice. He bought more land and protected it with a private army of pistol-slinging cowboys. At the back door of the Confederacy, he also spent much of his time buying cotton and running it past Union lines to be sold to Confederate quartermasters. King, his ranch, and his growing fortune safely weathered...
...Mikoyan's favorite pastimes was preparing New Year's gifts, and deciding what to give whom. Some typical decisions of those days: for Stalin, a chocolate jack boot; for Molotov, a chocolate stool; for Khrushchev, a chocolate bottle; for Malenkov, a chocolate table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master...
...Second Point. In Columbus, Ohio, after police caught Eugene Vernon, 15, with $91 of the $100 he had stolen in a candy store by brandishing a pistol and threatening, "Give me every cent in that register or I'll blow your head off," he offered a conditional surrender: "It was all a joke, fellows. I'm willing to forget...
...only way to halt Houston's armaments race was by "strict enforcement" of the law requiring gun buyers to show a certificate. Justice Thompson's next step: to issue arrest warrants for six Houston gun dealers and for Reporter Davis, who had already got rid of his pistol and protested that he wouldn't own one at any price-even...