Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this tire fixed' ... So Shepherd, he takes his foot and put it out of the car and was getting out, I can't say just how quick it was, but he shot him. It was quick enough, and he turned, the sheriff did, and he has a pistol and he shot him right quick . . . That left [Sammy] against the face of the car and then he shot me. He reached and grabbed me and snatched me, and Sammy, too. He snatched both of us and then threw both of us on the ground...
...minutes the deputy sheriff was there ... And the deputy he shined the light in my face and he said to the sheriff, 'That son of a bitch is not dead,' and then he said, 'Let's kill him.' The deputy sheriff then pointed the pistol on me and pulled the trigger, snapped the trigger, and the gun did not shoot. He took it around to the car lights and looked in it and shined the light on it. He turned it on me again and pulled it and that time it fired. It went through...
...routed Villa. Before he could die however, he was jerked to his feet in front of a firing squad. The bullets which crashed into his chest merely knocked him down. A sergeant's coup de grace only nicked his ear. The sergeant's cursing captain seized the pistol and sent a .38 bullet into Gomez' head at the hairline-but late that night Gomez still lived...
...costs. Workers began to grumble and sign up with the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. When Milliken fired 191 employees, the plant struck, and the strikers fought with those who refused to walk out. During the 54 days of trouble, fearful company executives and other townspeople took out pistol permits. In one attempt to bring peace, President Milliken called the strikers to the front lawn of his ten-acre estate, urged them to go back to work. Later he said he would have to close if the union came in and raised his costs...
...hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind him. Downstairs he washed his shirt, took a shower, dressed and bicycled away...