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Word: pistoling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Creek. They talked with wonder about John Bade, a 22-year-old sergeant from Toledo, who was leaning half-conscious against a tree with three bullets in him when a Red officer walked up, raised his pistol and shot Eade through the eye. The bullet lodged in the back of his skull but didn't kill him, and Eade was back in the States for Thanksgiving. They talked with humor about Lieut. Bill Shiebert of Albany, N.Y., who wants to become a Catholic priest when he gets out of the Army next year. During a sharp fire fight, Shiebert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Humor, Horror & Heroism | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near death, but Paula, who never left his side, pulled him through. In the end, reality blighted romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Was All True | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

After his pistol charged with birdshot failed to stop he attackers, Norton ran six miles through the jungle in bare feet to obtain help. The natives had intended to kill, and they only abandoned their attack because they thought the Paynters were dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injured Ornithologists To Return To America Before Thanksgiving | 11/17/1965 | See Source »

...kill the reporter or "wipe out" the Times. Shortly after the story appeared, Burros did carry out his threat of violence-but on himself. After storming around Frankhouser's apartment in Reading, Pa., and demolishing a bedstead with a karate kick, he shot himself to death with a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Klansmcm's Secret | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

Norton raced six miles barefoot through he fung'e to secure help, after his pistol charged with birdshot, failed to fend on the assailants. In a 4000-mile ham radio lookup with the CRIMSON yesterday Norton said "I had so much adrenalin in me could have run on my head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 Ecuadorans Admit Attacking Researchers | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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