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Word: pistoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Avenue Victor Emmanuel and lain down neatly on his bed. Then he had drawn aside his black coat and the leather locket with the gold coin that always rested on his breast like a superstitious token of his only god. and shot himself with a 9-mm. Browning pistol, neatly through the middle of his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World's Greatest Swindler | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Edward "thought pityingly that she might be going mad. 'Excuse me, Madam, but you can't dismiss me. I only take notice from Major Kinryce.' Her cold eyes in her haggard face fixed him fearfully. 'I shot him just now with his old service pistol . . . You must go and fetch me a policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...Pistol Club, with a 6-1 league record, will meet M.I.T. in a Greater Boston Pistol League match tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pistol Team to Meet M.I.T. | 1/15/1957 | See Source »

Finally the dire need of the Hungarian refugees became a political football when the Chairman of the Combined Charities pistol-whipped the Council into letting World Universities Service handle the funds for the special relief drive. "If WUS doesn't get the money, I won't run the drive," he said, and added that "you can't tell me how to spend my money." Regardless of the merits of WUS, Combined Charities is and should remain an advisory and administrative arm of the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... and the Democrats in 1924" | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

...harsh cry from the back of the church made everyone jump. "Peace! Peace! Where can we find peace?" Shouldering through the crowd at the door came a stocky man in a khaki jacket wearing a pistol in a shoulder holster. Following him were a woman in a peasant kerchief and a small girl. In a front pew, severe-looking Gifford Proctor, a business executive, demanded: "Who comes to this house of God seeking peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace in Wilton | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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