Word: pistoling
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...shot." Morrisroe, Crocker said, "made a break like he was going for the door.". Crocker solemnly avowed that in Daniels' right hand "there was a bright, shiny object that resembled a knife," while Father Morrisroe had something in his right hand that he "took to be a pistol. I saw a round object like a gun barrel." Two defense witnesses, a county construction employee and a stockyard worker, added that they later saw two Negroes leaning over the bleeding bodies "pickin' up a knife" and "sumpin' . . . looked like a pistol"-neatly explaining why no weapons were found...
...bounds of credibility (though critics might note that there is a lot of coincidence in life, too, and that its absence in a story can be more unrealistic than its presence). Typical is the moment in Verdi's La Forza del Destino, when Don Alvaro throws his pistol to the floor to show that he is above dueling with his sweetheart's father, the gun goes off and fires a bullet right through Pop's heart. Mistaken identity is rife; a girl who has spent the night with a man usually fails to recognize him next...
Died. Michael Charles Boyer, 21, only son of Actor Charles Boyer, promotion director for his father's Valiant Record Company; by his own hand (.38-cal. pistol), in a game of Russian roulette after his fiancée broke off their engagement; in West Los Angeles...
...tyrannical to the Negro community." Others apparently feel even more strongly than that. Mrs Hicks says that she and her family-her husband, an engineer, and two sons, 18 and 20-have been repeatedly terrorized with death threats. She has taken out a permit to carry a pistol...
Died. Clifford Stanton Heinz III, 25, great-grandson of Food-Company Founder H. J. Heinz and heir to a share in the $40 million family fortune; by his own hand (.25-cal. pistol), following several years of general despondency and psychiatric treatment; in Chicago...