Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of an uproariously funny bank robbery, a country-boy hoodlum fires his pistol; the tone of the scene shifts in a split second from humor to horror as the bloodied victim dies...
...fault. In hopes of locating Communist shore batteries, Arnheiter sent the speedboat close inshore to draw their fire, meanwhile bringing the Vance and her 3-in. guns into the largely uncharted shoal waters off the coast to strike when the Reds revealed themselves. Several times, he fired his pistol at "sea snakes" near junks that his men were inspecting; often he fired warning shots across Vietnamese bows with his own M-l rifle when he felt that they were not responding swiftly enough to his heave-to orders...
...Pistol Whipping. Carl completed high school, enrolled under the G.I. bill as a psychology major at West Virginia State, but after a year went back home to Western Reserve University. He was still undecided as to a career-psychology and the ministry were possibilities-when in 1948 he became chauffeur to a political organizer in Frank Lausche's gubernatorial campaign. After Lausche won, Stokes was offered a state job and chose to be a liquor inspector. He was a tough one. In his first case, a lone foray against an unlicensed saloon, the tough barkeep and customers laughed...
...start, then proceed to the unrelated near and dear. Since Earp rides a white horse, he's the good guy. Clanton's bad--he sets other men to do his killings and, supposedly under his influence, they take aim when an enemy's back is turned and his pistol is glued to his holster...
Protected by rings of electric wire outside and pistol-packing Marines within, NSA is a cathedral of cryptography-the occult art of secret codes. Bigger even than the Central Intelligence Agency, NSA headquarters houses about 14,000 employees, including some of the best analytic, mathematical and communications brains in the U.S. CIA's well-known headquarters in Langley, Va., has about 10,000 employees. Like CIA, NSA maintains a far-flung network of listening posts abroad, intercepting secret transmissions. At about $1 billion, NSA's annual budget, hidden under special executive funds, is estimated at twice that...