Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measured toughness to any hint of trouble. In Bethlehem, 40 suspected members of El Fatah, the. Syrian-trained terrorist organization, were arrested as they met in a cafe. And throughout the new terri tories, Israeli soldiers continued their house-to-house search for arms. If so much as a pistol is found under a mattress, the soldiers clear out the inhabitants and coolly dynamite the offending house to smithereens...
...Designer Alexander de Seversky and herself a notable aviatrix, a New Orleans socialite who in 1930 took up flying to surprise her husband, by the late '30s was expert enough to help test-fly his planes until a heart condition grounded her; by her own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in Northport...
When Lester Maddox became Governor of Georgia. Carl Sanders provided him with a speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...
...Recalling the death of a white policeman during Plainfield, N.J., riots last month, Brown bellowed: "Look what the brothers did in Plainfield. They stomped a cop to death. Good. He's dead. They stomped him to death. They threw a shopping basket on his head and took his pistol and shot him and then...
Hussein takes it all philosophically. "When your time comes to die, you die," he says. "It is God's will." To even up the odds a bit, he wears a .38 pistol tucked in his belt or an armpit holster under his coat. But he obviously enjoys danger. His once cherubic face is now deeply lined, and his hair is flecked with grey, but his sturdy arms and legs are hard with the muscles of a sportsman. He is an inveterate hunter, horseman, scuba diver and deep-sea fisherman. He introduced water-skiing to Jordan, then took up kiting...