Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down in his third-class compartment on the Asch Express. Truksa carefully patted his pocket to make sure his pistol was still there...
Larsen, incredibly, seemed to have expected victory. When the execution had been carried out he mumbled: "I thought I had this one locked up . . . He was like a pistol...
...sinister shadow play of symbols, Green tries to suggest that life is more than a kittenish spree. A pigeon falls dead on the first page; Julia worries endlessly about not packing her good luck charms, "her egg with the elephants in it, her wooden pistol and her little painted top"; a spindly mystery man gibbers in changing dialects about the grave illness of somebody's stricken aunt. Like signposts in limbo, these point everywhere and nowhere. And Party Going's old-fashioned pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel...
...rifles handy. They also keep watchdogs, the fiercer the better: usually Dobermans or great Danes. Every white Johannesburger is ready to dial "30" (for the Flying Squad) at sign of trouble. To whites, between 300 and 400 firearm licenses are granted every month. The most popular weapon with the pistol-underthe-pillow population is a .25 automatic...
...World War I* and the regular Army's answer to drafted Alvin York; of a heart attack; in Vevay, Ind. On Oct. 12, 1918, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, he charged a German strong point, singlehandedly killed 19 enemy machine gunners (shot 17, pickaxed two after his pistol jammed), so earned his Medal of Honor and a ringing tribute from General Pershing: "Here is America's greatest doughboy...