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Word: pistoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mistakenly identified by the FBI as a gun moll of the same name, who in 1935 slipped a pistol through the bars of her desperado husband's cell, thereby aiding in his break from the Muskogee, Okla. jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Waitress' Day. In Kenosha, Wis., when Milton Hall, 23, entered her lunchroom and threatened her with a pistol, Waitress Margaret Gresham talked him into pocketing the weapon, treated him to a cup of coffee, then called the police, who promptly came and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

Johnson was reported to have appeared depressed and nervous prior to his disappearances from New Haven. He is also known to have purchased in New Haven a 22 caliber pistol, the weapon used in the Colorado shooting, within the past few weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berserk Yale Man Held in Colorado After Shooting 2 | 10/10/1953 | See Source »

...just landed on South Korea's Kimpo airfield near Seoul. As U.N. airmen raced toward the red-starred, silver plane, the MIG pilot-a 25-year-old North Korean in a neat blue jumper suit -methodically tore up a picture of a girl friend, unstrapped his pistol holster, saluted smartly and surrendered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: F.O.B. $100,000 | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne loses his temper and beats up everybody in sight-a magic Hollywood formula that enables him to corral all the criminals, clear his name, and settle down happily in a rose-covered gas station with Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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