Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colin R. Doane '55 of Sherman, Conn. and Leverett House has been elected captain of the varsity pistol team for 1954-55. Doane, high scorer in every match this year, succeeds Ralph L. Brown...
...reserve Foreign Legion battalion toward the shrouded hill. Red bazookas stop the tanks but do not stop the legion. "Some Viets were dug in, so we cleaned them out," says a legion officer. "There were Viets everywhere, shoulder to shoulder. A Viet shot me. I fired my pistol at the Viet. He was dead, not me. Another Viet tried to bayonet one of my men. My man knocked the bayonet aside, then he hit the Viet with his fist. He knocked him down. Then he dropped a grenade on him so he wouldn't get up." The legionnaires...
Planned Economy. In San Leandro, Calif., after police stopped their car, two 15-year-old boys explained that they were heading for Mexico with $17, a bar of soap, a candle, an alarm clock, a bottle of whisky and a loaded 7.65-mm. pistol "for holdups when we run out of money...
...gallery floor, Foreign Affairs Committee Clerk Boyd Crawford heard the shots crack out, raced into the corridor just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...
Foreclosure. In Conneaut, Ohio, a stranger who was turned down for a loan by the Lake Erie Finance Co. whipped out a pistol, grabbed $200 and announced: "I need the money, and I will take it anyway...