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Word: pistoling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Misfire. In Denver, after wresting the pistol away from a man trying to hold him up, George Sawaya was told by his would-be assailant: "Let's just forget this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1960 | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...LOVER HELD IN HUSBAND SLAYING. The husband (Alfred Ryder) is a detective on the police force of a big city in California. His wife (Rita Hayworth) falls in love with a young widower (Gig Young) who visits her one night in her kitchen. The husband catches them, pulls a pistol, is shot dead in the scuffle. Charged with murder, the pair are defended by two attorneys-he by a boozy old bungler, she by a fast-talking, hard-sweating young attorney (Anthony Franciosa) who seems to be terribly afraid that he will not get his client out of the clink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...their dream of a grand white-colonnaded house of their own. Jackson built the Hermitage in 1819, four years after the Battle of New Orleans. Rachel tragically died 2½ months before he entered the Presidency. During his final years in the Hermitage, Jackson kept in his bedroom the pistol with which he had killed Charles Dickinson defending Rachel's honor (as well as the bullet in his own chest received in the same duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HALLS OF HISTORY | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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