Word: pistoling
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...open season on NBC's Tonight show continued, but Johnny Carson was not perceptibly pinked. ABC had already taken a pot shot with Joey Bishop (TIME, April 28). And last week, a new ad hoc hookup, the United Network, took aim with a cap pistol called the Las Vegas Show...
Improvising Poetry. To the frontier editor, a pistol was as crucial as a composing stick. Irate readers were all too likely to reply with bullets instead of letters. Some editors were careful not to sleep twice in the same spot because so many of their colleagues had been shot at in their beds. Editors regularly attacked each other in print-and in person. James King, publisher of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, and James P. Casey, publisher of the San Francisco Times, settled their differences in a classic encounter. Casey gunned down King, and Casey, in turn, was lynched...
...kept the central office open 24 hours a day and equipped the men with one-way pocket radios constantly in touch with Grays Hall. Finally, he standardized the type of gun used by the force. Previously officers had carried several kinds, but all had trained with a 32-calibre pistol. The new chief saw to it that the men carried the standard police gun, a 38-calibre pistol, and trained with the same model...
...anyone had ever told me I'd be excited about finding some rusty iron in the ground, I'd have told them they were crazy," he says. Yet he was at the Blockade Runners last week to show off his weekend treasures -some shell fragments, a pistol ball and a ramrod...
...down, but Hall fought free. Patrol man Joseph W. Jackson, 28, clubbed him on the head with his night stick; the stick broke. Hall grabbed the bro ken stick and slugged Jackson. With that - and before his fellow officers could get back into the struggle - Jackson drew his pistol and fired six times, killing Hall...