Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he discovered which professor was Speranza, Furnari whipped out a pistol, shouted, "See this?" and fired five shots. As Speranza fell dead, screaming students bolted for the exits; one teacher tripped and fell trying to escape, the other cowered in a corner. Ignoring them, Furnari calmly pocketed the gun and gave himself up to the police. To his weeping daughter, Furnari said sternly, "Why are you crying? For me? You should have thought of me before. I have vindicated your honor, bambina...
...thought her father only intended to convince Speranza that he should live with her. Exactly, said her father, but "when I saw him before me, this man who had ruined my daughter and my entire existence, my intention gave way to instinct. My hand went automatically to my pistol and I fired away!" He added, "Unfortunately, I am a Sicilian, and in my veins I have blood, not dirty water...
...real world the civil rights revolution has changed everything. Though he cannot ride a horse, rarely packs his .38 pistol and admits to raising petunias, broken-nosed ("I got it in the amatoors") Chief U.S. Marshal James Joseph Patrick McShane, 55, has out-Earped Earp while leading his 821 men to war in Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Oxford. Never before has the nation's senior law-enforcement agency - just 175 years old - looked less like a refuge for political grifters and more like the strong right arm of the nation's 393 federal courts...
...handsome weapon, but the shells have a bad habit of erupting and jamming the chambers. I'd lay the piece aside and get me something else: a Colt's, with the Thuer conversion." Crabb reports that Hickok knew an hombre who carried a small pistol in his crotch. When cornered, the fellow would ask permission to relieve himself before dying, open his fly, and fire. "The trouble was one time he got overhasty and shot off his male parts...
...evening after the first Freedom Day a white, who was drunk, walked into COFO headquarters with a pistol bulging in his pocket. He began a conversation with one of the workers in which he threatened his life--but he left when the worker calmly walked out of the room...