Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Pearl (Tired) Bailey, 33, Negro nightclub singer and musicomedienne (Arms and the Girl) : John Randolph Pinkett Jr., 37, her third husband, who, she charged: 1) interfered with her career, 2) hit her with a telephone, and 3) "split my skull open" with a pistol; after almost four years of marriage; in Las Vegas...
...started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual toy business. This week fast-growing Toyman Tigrett put his 1952 models on sale. Among his new gadgets: a "Jet Zoom" pistol (98?) and bow & arrow Zoomerangs...
Audience Participation. In Englewood, Colo., a customer went into the Spencer Sporting Goods Store, asked Manager E. E. Tyson to show him a pistol, examined it, loaded it with his own bullets, aimed it and murmured: "This is a stickup...
Down in the depths of the Indoor Athletic Building, clouded with steam and filled with people, is the University's rifle range. Over fifty people--members of the Pistol Club, the Rifle Club, the Rifle Team, and the ROTC rifle teams--must repair there for practice. It is an extremely busy place, mostly because only three people can shoot at one time...
Sheets in the Windows. Wearing a pistol with his sport jacket and slacks, the Strong Man took command over a 77-minute revolution. All around the island, members of the plot grabbed control of garrisons, naval bases, radio stations and communication centers. At the palace, Prio had time to issue a communiqué calling on "all Cubans to resist jointly with the President." At one point a car raced, guns firing, toward the palace gate; two guards were killed and seven wounded in an exchange of shots. Shortly afterwards, the gate opened and a limousine bore Prio away...