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Word: pistoling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scepter in 1644, Christina soon became Europe's most curious baroque spinster queen. Her father, the militant Protestant Gustavus Adolphus, had ordered that she be brought up as a boy. In fact, the royal midwives had at first thought that she was one. She practiced shooting with a pistol, learned to speak Latin, French, German, Dutch, Italian and cope in Hebrew, Arabic and Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions,: Bachelor Queen | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...they had a tentative physical description of the suspect. As for the gun, he said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer had carried a "small black pistol"). Hours later, police matched up the gun incident with the murder man hunt and rushed back to the hotel. Speck had left 30 minutes earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: 24 Years to Page One | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...guns used in murders in 1963 and 1964 were bought-with shocking ease-through the mail. Forty-two states do not require persons to get licenses to buy hand guns, and in those states and areas with licensing laws, almost anyone who has the price of a pistol can get one. In Washington, D.C., police checked 200 persons who had received mail-order guns, found 25% of them had criminal records. In New Jersey, the Paterson Morning Call last November marked the second anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by ordering a .38-cal. revolver by mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guns Unlimited | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...pulls out 60% of downed airmen, excluding those who fall directly into populous or heavily garrisoned zones. Rescues are effected by a combination of coordination, technology and guts. Each airman is equipped with a $2,400 survival kit containing, among other things, 400 ft. of nylon rope, a tracer pistol, flares, food, water, a raft and a desalting kit. The key gadget is a small mercury-battery radio that is both a voice transceiver and a beeper providing a radio fix for search and rescue planes to home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: That Others May Live | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...warm July afternoon in 1964, off-duty New York City Policeman Samuel Lasky heard a noise outside his apartment door in suburban Mount Vernon. Two strangers were tiptoeing down the hall. Lasky hurriedly grabbed his pistol and managed to collar one, John F. Peters, who protested that he was merely visiting a married girl friend in the building. Not impressed, Lasky frisked Peters and felt something that "could have been a knife." What Lasky actually found was an envelope containing burglar's tools-for possession of which Peters was duly convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Frisk & Find | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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