Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compares favorably with original version of 20 years ago (still available on Decca). Ethel Merman's voice may have lost a little of its spring, but it still isn't rusty, and the high-caliber orchestra of the Victor recording makes the Decca sound like a pop pistol...
...jumping indictment under the new no-bail setup. On the second day of his trial for robbery and assault, John L. Barringer, 23, saw things going against him. He then simply vanished. He was arrested two months later for another robbery, two more counts of assault, and packing a pistol. Having violated his trust the first time, he is now being held without bail, and he could eventually be sent up for as many as five extra years for ducking out of his earlier trial. But other defendants may well imitate Barringer. Says Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas S. Nunzio...
...taunting signs and other scattered protests along the way, including a group of chanting demonstrators in Sydney who burned Ky in effigy. But Ky's candor and charm largely disarmed his critics, especially among the press. When one newsman jibed at Ky's renowned skill with a pistol, the Premier coolly offered to set up a match: "We'll shoot for a case of Australian beer." A Communist reporter who disputed Ky's account of conditions in South Viet Nam was invited on a Ky-conducted tour of his nation, and quickly accepted...
Philosophical Bond. Those were mild words indeed from a man who first gained national attention three years ago by brandishing a pistol and a pickax handle in the face of Negroes seeking to eat in his Pickrick restaurant-and then closed it rather than serve them...
Tame Lion. Offstage, no project or gimmick was too daring, too dangerous or too absurd for her. She took up sculpture and painting, the piano and writing, pistol shooting and fishing, ballooning and alligator hunting. She went down into a Pennsylvania coal mine, kept a tame lion in her house, and-though she claimed vehemently that she opposed capital punishment-attended a hanging in London, a garroting in Madrid and two beheadings in France. "If there's anything more remarkable than watching Sarah act," observed one admirer, "it's watching her live...