Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-trained naturalist who contributes scientific reports to the California Academy of Sciences, a pathfinder who has saved stranded motorists by skiing through blizzards with food strapped to his broad back. He is so accurate with a slingshot that he rarely has to resort to his .22-cal. pistol to kill small game. He scoffs at the idea of riding an animal up a mountain: "I can carry a damn mule faster than he can carry...
...only one man was killed-an army lieutenant who was shot when an excited cop pulled a gun as the officer entered an Ankara post office. Officers found President Celal Bayar (who recently told a Western diplomat: "We are going to crush opposition") at his palace. Bayar flourished a pistol and his daughter threw a kitchen knife at the officers before they could hustle him off to "protective custody" in the War College barracks in Ankara. The Justice Minister was yanked from an automobile luggage compartment; the Foreign Minister took refuge with his father-in-law's chauffeur...
...were remarkably intact. The Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engine was easily identifiable, as were the U.S. manufacturers' labels on cameras and electronic gear. Along with the varied supply of foreign money that Khrushchev had reported in the captured pilot's possession, the Soviets also laid out a pistol, a tube of morphine, a flashlight, a half-pack of Kent cigarettes, a Social Security card (No. 230-30-0321), a couple of pocketknives. Powers' suicide needle, they said, had been tested on a dog, and the animal had died in 30 seconds...
Fifteen minutes later a U.S. Navy helicopter arrived, disgorged a squad of Americans in civilian clothes. For the first time the pilot opened his canopy, called, "I'm O.K.," and climbed out. The Japanese noted that he carried a pistol at his waist, that his flight suit bore no markings. Moments later more U.S. civilians arrived, drew pistols and ordered the Japanese away from the plane. But not before Eiichiro Sekigawa, editor of Tokyo's Air Views, got a meticulous description...
Married. Emma Castro Ruz, 24, youngest sister of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro; and Victor Lomeli Delgado, a Mexican engineer; by the Archbishop Coadjutor, Msgr. Evelio Diaz y Cia, in Havana. Dressed in his customary fatigues, and bobbling a pistol on his right hip, Fidel showed up 20 minutes late for the wedding, was applauded and cheered as he entered the cathedral...