Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four one morning Pyle's forty armed deputies, and eighty pistol-packing highway patrolmen surrounded Short Creek and seized the town, placing it under martial...
...about five years old opened the door with a lunge and stood panting, his six-shooter drawn for battle. I jerked my hand off the mouthpiece, asked the president another question, then hissed at the cowboy to get out. He eyed me coldly, and without a word raised his pistol and shot me right between the eyes. Then he crawled under the bed as the vigilantes came whooping up the stairs...
...have come to me," said the governor, "of the presence of gangsters and hoodlums in the vicinity of polling places." Whatever the Labor Board's decision, it was clear that a substantial number of New York's longshoremen had served notice that they were extremely tired of pistol rule...
...hand and a shotgun in the other. He fired his shotgun at a man who was painting the bank, and then ducked into a barber shop. When the new sheriff arrived, Krum residents called: "Don't go in there. He's crazy." But Hodges drew his pistol, walked up to the barber shop, and called: "This is the sheriff of Denton County. Come...
...Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called Pickets Surprised at Peck's House, of a pistol-range fight between Union cavalry and a Confederate outpost in Virginia during the winter...