Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist guerrillas; under the urging of Lieut. Icardi, members of Holohan's mission had fed him a bowl of poisoned soup. Holohan merely got sick. The plotters had then drawn lots, and LoDolce, the loser, had gone to the major's bedroom and coldblooded y fired two pistol bullets into his head. The body had been weighted and sunk in the icy waters of the lake; the police found it where the witnesses said it was, dredged it up, found the two bullets and traces of potassium cyanide. They notified U.S. authorities...
...last year, Roe was the last lone operator; four gangsters tried to kidnap him, too. But his luck held. Roe, who habitually packed a pistol, got away, leaving a hoodlum named Leonard ("Fat Lennie") Caifano dead. Roe enjoyed life-he drove a Cadillac, wore $50 neckties, and lived in a flamboyant apartment which boasted a revolving television set and pastel-tinted telephones to match the color scheme of each room...
...Green were loitering. A woman got out of it and headed for a nearby house. The driver, a middle-aged man, stayed behind to lock the automobile's doors. Jacobs muttered, "This is it." He sidled up to the man, poked him in the ribs with the pistol and ordered him to get back behind the wheel. The victim, a warehouse supervisor named Alfred McCullaugh, obeyed without a word. Green climbed in beside him. The pistolwaving Jacobs got into the back seat...
...William Hopkins, had driven up with his wife in another automobile. He ran across the pavement yelling, "What's the matter, Pop?" Jacobs ordered the son-in-law into the back seat. But before McCullaugh could start the car, the two wives came running up. One saw the pistol and screamed...
...Hungary's one-handed Marksman Kar-bly Takacs, who helped his country take third place in the Olympics by winning the silhouette (pistol) shooting championship for the second time (he won in 1948), with 60 hits, for a score...