Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next? In 1960, according to Pentagon count, Communist terrorists assassinated or kidnaped more than 3,000 South Vietnamese. Death came by knife, by pistol shot in the night, by bombs, by beatings, by tortures. Last year the Viet Cong assassinated or kidnaped 1,536 village chiefs or other government officials, murdered 1,359 other civilians and kidnaped still another 8,400. So far this year, the Viet Cong score is: 264 provincial officials killed and 364 kidnaped, 610 civilians killed and 3,026 kidnaped. An average of four village chiefs or other local officials are murdered or kidnaped each...
There was the faithful watchdog, barking and ready to bite. There was the burglar, doing his best to scurry away from the premises. There was the cop, who raised his pistol, took careful aim-and shot the watchdog...
...Viola Liuzzo drove away from the red light, the four men followed in their car. At one point, "Gene Thomas reached over and got his revolver out from between the seats and said, 'Get your pistols, cousins,' and I drew my pistol...
Thomas handed his pistol to Wilkins. There was a brief discussion on whether they should force the other car off the road, but Wilkins said, "Bubba, if you hit that automobile at all we may get caught. If you get just a little bit of paint on it we'll get caught...
Died. Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones, 53, antic bandleader of the pistol-popping, whistle-shrieking, Bronx-cheering City Slickers during the 1940s and '50s, a square-jawed musical clown with airplane eyebrows and wildly checked suits, who was an unknown drummer when he formed the Slickers in 1942 and led them to success with rowdy parodies of sentimental hits (Black Magic, Cocktails for Two) until rock 'n' roll drowned him out in 1962; of emphysema; in Los Angeles...