Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal...
...this question would seem to nix the picture's intellectual respectability once and for all, but on the screen it makes King Kong look like an organ grinder's monkey, and will probably have the most skeptical scientist in the audience clutching wildly for his atomic pistol...
...door on him and drove on. Stella Brooks said her husband had been shot to death for disobeying a bus driver (her testimony was stricken from the record because she had not witnessed the shooting). Sadie Brooks told of seeing a Negro man forced from a bus at pistol-point because he did not have the correct change. Delia Perkins testified that a driver had called her an "ugly black ape." Richard Jordan said his pregnant wife had been forced to give her seat to a white woman. Georgia Teresa Gilmore said when she boarded a bus, the driver shouted...
...base the British desire. Last week four terrorists, their heads covered by black woolen hoods, walked into St. George's Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Kythrea during a service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while he was in the act of chanting the Gospel-apparently on account of Pierides' British sympathies. A policeman was shot to death in a cafe; two more British soldiers were killed...
Kluckhohn pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Last June he was sentenced to five to ten years for the same pistol shooting on May 13 of Miss Bernice Seawell of Arlington, Va. He appealed the conviction to the North Carolina Supreme Court, which granted him a new trial because the judge's charge to the jury was found faulty...