Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well-Loaded Pistol Is Cocked & Ready Whether the outcome for Laos is battle or bargaining, true Laotian independence depends ultimately on the U.S.'s ability to apply its power on short notice in an awkward area. This is how that power was poised last week...
...Pistol Packers. The hurried fleet and troop movements of last week were only the cocking of the pistol over threatened Laos, and the man who held the gun had plenty to back him up. He is Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), boss of the biggest military contingent in the world (TIME Cover, Jan. 6). At Felt's call are the 373,000 men. 1,000 aircraft and 400 ships of the First and Seventh Fleets, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces, and the Army's 1st, 7th and 25th Infantry Division. Highly mobile...
...ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them to him, and his Colt pistol and his P-38's identification tag as well. As they parted, Widen invited Hafner to visit him in Philadelphia after the war. It was a scene worthy of Richthofen himself, or Hell's Angels...
...this house?" A moment later, he returned, carrying his snuffling, snowsuited daughter. He handed her the first object that came to hand, a plastic Red Cross that he was using in the taping. "Here, Caroline," he soothed, "want a nice red cross? You've got that cap pistol in one hand, you might want this for the other." Caroline Kennedy's tears quickly evaporated, and she scampered off, all smiles, to rejoin her nurse. "Have a very nice walk." her father called after her as he turned back to the cameras. Another small domestic crisis solved...
...instrument (TIME Cover, July 7, 1958), Steve Kennedy had to run an understaffed, underpaid army of 24,000 men, many of them good, some of them not, most of them as contentious as only a New Yorker -and a uniformed one at that-can be. Stubborn, straight as a pistol shot, he worked relentlessly for 5½ years to instill honesty, discipline and a sense of pride in New York's Finest, and along the way became just about the city's best police boss since Teddy Roosevelt stalked the night streets rooting out deadbeat cops...