Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Big Pasquale was peeling his morning orange in the marketplace, he was accosted by a little man called "The Ship" because of his rolling gait. Within minutes, Big Pasquale was reaching for his pistol, but The Ship was too fast for him. True to the Camorra code. Big Pasquale told the police nothing, and everyone around-the shoeshine boy, the boy's customer, even the woman who sold the oranges-had sudden lapses of memory. But before he died in the hospital, Big Pasquale told Little Doll what had happened: Tony Esposito had sent The Ship around...
...definite part of the undergraduate body--and just because the amount of interest is now low, this does not preclude a future increase in interest. Last June, the H.A.A. dropped lacrosse and golf as varsity sports, and reduced support for club-teams in sailing, skiing, rifle, and pistol--a savings of $15,000 annually (about the salary of a full professor...
...Miami, Eugibio Vargas went to sleep holding a pistol, dreamed that he was being attacked, awoke to find that he had shot himself in the left hand...
...lacked in talent they made up in hard work. They wiggled through more walking lessons than Brigitte Bardot, and rasped themselves raw-handed to perfect the fast draw. Times without number they blasted holes in their own britches, and one of them, while poking his hat brim with a pistol, accidentally shot his own sideburns off. They became the prima donnas of horse opera, and sometimes it seemed as if they would rather pull hair than triggers. "Oh, Hugh O'Brian doesn't matter," Dale Robertson sniffed recently. "He's just a itty-bitty fella." And Hugh...
...news on a fast-coming "family western" called The Rifleman, is a smiling Irish plow chaser who carries the biggest weapon seen so far on the small screen: a full-length .44-.40 1892 Winchester carbine, which he twirls like a pistol. Fortunately, the man is so shad-bellied tall that he can spin the barrel under his arm without scraping his armpit. Raised in Brooklyn, Chuck spent six years in minor-league ball, wound up with the Los Angeles Angels in 1952 (batted .321, hit 23 homers). When he walked in to try out for Rifleman, the director suddenly...