Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever black puffs of antiaircraft fire blossomed above the horizon, crowds clinging precariously to trucks careened off towards the action, hoping to see a captured Israeli pilot. Radio Cairo reported that one downed pilot had pulled his pistol to threaten a band of fellahin in the delta town of Zagazig; the fellahin chopped him to pieces with their field axes. As night fell, thousands of youth volunteers, self-consciously aware of their new authority, poured into the streets to enforce a complete blackout on the capital...
...armed robber snatched $363 from the Diamond Cab Co. in Baltimore. Hearing cries of "Holdup," two cabbies trailed the gunman to 2111 Cocoa Lane and called police to the house. Mrs. Bennie Joe Hayden let them in; upstairs they found her husband undressed, in bed. One cop found a pistol and a shotgun in a toilet water tank; another found Hayden's clothes in a washing machine. Though the loot was never found, a robbery eyewitness and the pursuing cab drivers identified Hayden's clothes, which were deemed sufficient evidence to convict Hayden and send him to prison...
...spoor of a sex killer, Janssen sees a suspect draw a pistol-and promptly guns him down. The victim turns out to be a widely respected M.D. When the doctor's pistol cannot be found, Berkeley-style pickets cry police brutality, and a grand jury indicts Janssen on a manslaughter charge. Eventually even California's finest turn their backs on one of their own. With less than ten days before trial time, he goes on a solo search for the missing gun and the story behind it. Running down false leads and blind alleys, Janssen caroms...
...surging lawlessness has spawned a crime wave that has turned the Philippines into a kind of Dodge City East, where just about everybody packs a pistol, and news of muggings and murders crowds most other stories off the front pages of the newspapers. One reason for the lawlessness is the Philippines' high unemployment rate, which is near the 15% mark and getting no better. The average income for the country's 33 million people is a meager $500 a year, and buying power is being forced down by rising living costs. The government's huge bureaucracy...
...licensing for ex-offenders needs a "thorough overhaul." A dangerous driver is obviously unfit for a driver's license; a stickup artist should never get a pistol permit. But why require "good character" for a barber's license? A better rule: "Criminal convictions should be considered only to the extent actually relevant to fitness to participate in activities posing particular dangers to society...