Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiter who had meekly bought a ticket to Tampa. Suddenly he was the same snarling Cuban secret policeman he had been in pre-Batista days; suddenly he was fulfilling his role as a hotheaded member of Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement. He pointed a big, Luger-type pistol at Pilot William E. Buchanan. 40, and snapped: "Turn this airplane around." Unruffled, Buchanan banked the $3,500,000 ship into a wide turn calculated to alert the radar watch on the ground. "All right, now," Buchanan drawled, "what heading do you want me to fly?" "Two hundred ten degrees...
...bulky turboprop, which looks much like a Soviet Ilyushin 18, touched down at José Marti airport, a waiting crowd of Cubans cheered and youthful armed militiamen saluted. But the cheers died abruptly when the big "Eastern Air Lines" markings became clear and the pistol-packing waiter climbed out. The exuberant crowd had been waiting for an entirely different visitor-Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin...
...know the painter at Ravoux's, the one we call Le Rouquin [The Redhead]? He has shot himself with a pistol in the park behind the chateau." So, recalls 89-year-old Henry Maurage, the news that Vincent Van Gogh was dead swept through the obscure town of Auvers-sur-Oise one Sunday in July 1890. Since then the small town where Van Gogh ended his tortured life and the tiny room where he lived have become historical shrines...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Patton and the Third Army follows the pistol-totin' general through North Africa to Sicily to Normandy and the headlong sprint to Germany. Mostly film clips, excellently edited...
...father, "that other one that misused the gun," and calls him a coward. Elsewhere, Hemingway suggested that there was nothing cowardly in suicide-if used to hasten what otherwise might be a slow and messy death. Some years ago, his mother, as a present, sent him the Civil War pistol with which his father had shot himself...