Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...
...from a gun by Mrs. Legg. What's more, they told a Texas jury, she had been charged with murder and was awaiting trial. Mrs. Legg said it was indeed an accident. She had surprised her husband in bed with another woman, she said. She started firing her pistol only to scare the woman, and her husband "accidentally" got in the way of a bullet. Therefore an accident; therefore double indemnity. The jury agreed. The case has been appealed, but if the award is upheld she will get the money even if she is convicted of murder...
...Pistol Pete" Varney doesn't boast. But he has a lot he could boast about...
...Pistol Pete isn't boasting when he says that this team could win the NCAA baseball crown in 1971. He isn't boasting and he isn't cocky. Today the team plays Springfield which could be tough. In baseball you take one game at a time. So today Varney, Kelly, Demichele and the rest will go into action again...
...details of last week's shooting are admittedly peculiar. The use of the pistol was clearly legal, since the thief threatened the officer's life by driving the stolen bike at him. But the policeman apparently fired the shot only after the bike had passed, hitting the bike's driver in the back--which could raise some question about the officer's judgment in resorting to his pistol...