Word: pistoling
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...gates, the angry farmers massed together, blocked the driveway, sometimes violently rocked the truck. Nearly 20 trucks turned back; other drivers prudently pulled off the highway to wait it all out. But Ivan Mueller, 40, a Cecil, Wis., hauler, drove his Ford truck steadily down State Highway 117. A pistol lay on the seat beside him. He swung into the Equity driveway and stopped a few feet from the gates...
...crowd charged into the Equity yard after Mueller, shouting "Murderer!" Men swarmed over the truck cab, shattered the windshield with their bare fists. Inside, Mueller grabbed his pistol, but lawmen fought through, took him into custody and charged him with homicide by reckless conduct...
...teched him off," York later explained. He fired 17 times-and 17 enemy soldiers died. Finally, German officers on the hill realized that York was virtually alone, sent eight men charging him with bayonets. York had used up all his rifle bullets, but he took out his pistol and picked all eight off, firing from rear to front-just as he had often potted a flock of wild turkeys back home...
...bare band of seven buddies. "How many men have you?" asked the startled major. "I got aplenty," replied York. With himself at the head of the column and his men strung along its sides, York marched off his catch. When more machine-gun crews loomed ahead, York put his pistol to the German major's head, got him to order their surrender. Eventually, York herded 132 prisoners into his American battalion field headquarters...
...concerning your "compendium of curious coincidences" [Aug. 21]. Lincoln's nickname contains three letters, Kennedy's four. Abe's wife was Mary Todd, but not Jack's. Whereas Lincoln was shot in a theater in April by means of a pistol, Kennedy was shot in a car in November by means of a rifle. The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald have no initial letter in common. An attempt was made to impeach the Tennessee Johnson, but not the Texas Johnson, despite the fact that both were born in states whose names begin with...