Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mustache, Ngo Tuong, 49, was a Popular Forces soldier who had come back home to serve as mayor only last month. Tuong liked to wear a black beret and a camouflage suit in making the rounds of his constituency, was both efficient and remarkably honest. Though he carried a pistol, he disdained a regular Marine guard detail, rightly judging that it would not sit well with his villagers. Anyway, there seemed little danger. Ap Quang Nam had been so thoroughly pacified after the marines drove the Viet Cong north of the Ca De River eight months ago that only occasional...
...Cong, who had slipped into the village the night before and hidden in a nearby house, burst in on the 40 worshipers. One fired a Czech burp gun, instantly killing the two officiating priests and Tuong's aunt, and hitting Tuong in the shoulder. Unable to draw his pistol, Tuong ran. A second burst cut him down in mid-courtyard. As so often happens in the terrorist war, the two assassins escaped in the confusion. In angry frustration, Tuong's nephew seized a long knife, raced next door and stabbed to death the man who had taken...
Died. Barbara Ann Rooney, 29, sometime actress, fifth wife of movie actor Mickey Rooney; by gunshot (.38-cal. pistol), apparently at the hand of her friend of recent months, Milos Milosevic, 24, a sometime actor, who then committed suicide; in Mickey's Brentwood, Calif., home, after she had visited her ill (with a blood infection) husband in a nearby hospital, and promised not to see Milosevic again...
...always in the middle of the big cops-and-robbers shootouts. When Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley was holed up, Broderick gave him two hours to surrender, then marched up to the building and found himself facing Crowley's pistol. He flattened the gunman with a punch before Crowley could find the courage to shoot...
...doorbell rang. The policewoman peered through a peephole, asked who was there. "Parcel-delivery service," came the reply. As the policewoman left the room, three cops, with two shotguns and a pistol, took her place. One jerked open the door, and the two intruders burst in. The cops opened fire. Skalla had arranged with the police to drop before they opened fire, but he missed his cue in the excitement. He and Bailey were gunned down; Bailey died instantly, but Skalla lingered for three hours. "In my opinion, they were prepared to shoot us," said Lieut. B. L. Cork...