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Word: pistoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man, after prolonged abuse, humiliates the woman by choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Le Western | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...knows, the biggest nuisance in watching television is having to get out of the chair to switch stations. Last week Zenith Radio Corp. brought out a new set equipped with electric eyes, permitting the viewer to sit as far away as 20 ft. and control it with a special pistol-grip flashlight. By shooting the beam at one slot alongside the screen, he can turn the set on (and off): by aiming at a second slot, he can switch stations; by aiming at a third slot, he can turn off the sound. Cost about $75 more than conventional TV sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Shoot the Vision | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified he saw her pistol-whip a crippled widow to death. Barbara, Santo and Perkins were convicted, and Barbara became the third woman in California to be sentenced to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Sea Gull | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...outside the theatre between two inebriated men, neither of whom were students, coincided with the theatre let-out. When police tried to lead the men away, the crowd rose to the occasion, jostled the officers and pushed a taxi to the sidewalk. One of the officers then pulled his pistol and held up the crowd until four paddy wagons arrived with 40 policemen, night sticks in hand, to dispatch the uprising...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: 1930's First Years: Quiet Traditions and Uncivilized Eating | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Something for the Road. In Largo, Fla., Thomas J. Gilmore, 44, escaped from Prison Camp 8515 with two of the camp's four bloodhounds, its auto, the superintendent's pistol, shirt and pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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