Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covered by a grotesque white hood and was identified only as "John Doe." The committee explained that it wanted to protect his relatives in Poland against Communist reprisals, though the witness himself had not requested anonymity. In an unhappy try for circus effect, the committee produced a genuine Russian pistol and got "Doe" to aim it at a volunteer victim while the flashbulbs popped...
...professional touch of a career criminal. A man delivered a package of dry cleaning to the ten-room apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue. Two hours later he telephoned to apologize-wrong address. Next morning two men showed up to reclaim the package; one of them drew a pistol and quietly invited the butler to instruct the doorman downstairs to admit their ringleader. Then they waited politely for their victim-Fashion Designer Mollie Parnis, 46-to finish a telephone call before they went into her bedroom. "You don't want to get hurt," said one soothingly. "Where...
...Sousse, 800 Arabs armed with sticks of dynamite battled police armed with tear gas. A jaunty French colonel, full-uniformed to campaign ribbons and kepi, attempted to argue with them. Two pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here...
Snatching at the cop's holster to keep him from drawing, Remedios reached for his own pistol. But in the scuffle Remedios slipped on the curb and fell, dragging Gutierrez down. Landing on top, Gutierrez grabbed for his pistol and fired five times into the Congressman's back and head. Remedios, still clutching his own gun, rolled over, dying...
...Fashioned Way. In Corpus Christi, Texas, Policeman Tom Goates emptied his pistol at a fugitive, missed, irritably threw the weapon and felled his man with a direct...