Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven prisoners, lodged in an upstairs cell block of the Dallas County Courthouse, overpowered a guard and started a dramatic getaway. One of them, brandishing a "pistol" carved out of soap and blackened with shoe polish, pushed his way into the crowded second-floor corridor of the courthouse...
community theater, from across the street a Vietnamese suddenly rushed the entrance. Holding the butt of a rusty pistol tightly in both hands, he fired two bullets point-blank into the lone MP guard, Army Pfc. Peter Feirben, 18, of Milwaukee, killing...
...more as he lay on the ground. All this was caught on film by Merritt's unmolested colleague, Cameraman Ed Jones of the Birmingham News. Merritt's equipment-$800 worth-was smashed with such enthusiasm that the six Negro pupils, who stayed inside, thought they had heard pistol shots...
...quarrel with the institution of expressing ideas." Alberto Giacometti gladly took his Guggenheim Grand Prize. But even he had some reservations on being first: "Nothing is absolute in art. You cannot say this painting is worth 100 points, this painting 80, this one 50. It's not a pistol-shooting contest, fortunately...
Ruby's parents were separated when he was twelve. His father was a "heavy drinker"; his mother was committed to a mental hospital. In brawls, he twice received severe head injuries, once from a pistol handle. He lost the tip of his left index finger after somebody bit it to the bone. "He thinks he's tough," said Bromberg. "He is a fighter-geared to attack all his life." But he is also subject to "basic emotional instability so severe that occasionally he breaks out crying for no apparent reason...