Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than me now. He doesn't sass the captains. He's a good, red-blooded American boy." Buck taught his son to hunt and fish in the dense woods near by. Schoolmates of Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees to collect the gum for turpentine). As soon...
...President Rene Barrientos ordered a Ranger battalion to make pursuit; so far, the army has killed ten guerrillas and captured ten, including a 26-year-old Frenchman named Jules Regis Debray, who studied guerrilla warfare under Castro and organized the Bolivian band. Last week, armed with a pistol, rifle and grenades, Barrientos himself joined the guerrilla hunters...
...Most of the platoon, though, was wiped out in the first assault. Kirby and a few survivors, including Castan, fought their way out of the encirclement behind a barrage of hand grenades. All of them were wounded at least twice. Castan, belatedly armed with Kirby's .357 Magnum pistol, disappeared into the man-high elephant grass and was gunned down. His film of the doomed platoon was found days later on a dead Red. Kirby, who was carrying only a flare pistol, escaped by blasting a skirmisher between the eyes with his last flare. One of his buddies survived...
...open season on NBC's Tonight show continued, but Johnny Carson was not perceptibly pinked. ABC had already taken a pot shot with Joey Bishop (TIME, April 28). And last week, a new ad hoc hookup, the United Network, took aim with a cap pistol called the Las Vegas Show...
Improvising Poetry. To the frontier editor, a pistol was as crucial as a composing stick. Irate readers were all too likely to reply with bullets instead of letters. Some editors were careful not to sleep twice in the same spot because so many of their colleagues had been shot at in their beds. Editors regularly attacked each other in print-and in person. James King, publisher of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, and James P. Casey, publisher of the San Francisco Times, settled their differences in a classic encounter. Casey gunned down King, and Casey, in turn, was lynched...