Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thornton "packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...
This puzzled me; it seemed out of character with the man as you described him-a pragmatic, intensely curious intellectual. It was not out of character that he should carry a handgun, but that he should prefer an automatic pistol to a revolver. Knowing your reputation for accurate reporting, I decided you must be correct, though most outdoorsmen prefer revolvers. They are safer; a variety of loads and bullet shapes can be fired through them, including shot cartridges, for use against snakes...
...happened, Sheriff Ford, who is head of the Oxford, Miss., White Citizens Council, had already been tipped off about McDowell's pistol. Boasted he: "Thirty minutes after he bought that little nigger pistol over in the Delta, the Citizens Council headquarters in Jackson knew about it." Ford merely waited for the right moment...
...Iranian minister stood at bay, staring down the muzzle of a gas pistol. The cold-eyed German behind the gun worked quickly and methodically. A spy caught in the act? A would-be assassin? No. All Hermann Reissmeier wanted was to smash a dozen windowpanes and thus "collect" an outstanding debt...
...looked like a tough trail boss in a TV western as he mounted his palomino and set off across the rugged mountain country north of Los Angeles. He wore thread bare khaki trousers over his riding boots, a red Western shirt and a modified stetson, and packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...