Word: pistoling
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...quarrel with the institution of expressing ideas." Alberto Giacometti gladly took his Guggenheim Grand Prize. But even he had some reservations on being first: "Nothing is absolute in art. You cannot say this painting is worth 100 points, this painting 80, this one 50. It's not a pistol-shooting contest, fortunately...
Ruby's parents were separated when he was twelve. His father was a "heavy drinker"; his mother was committed to a mental hospital. In brawls, he twice received severe head injuries, once from a pistol handle. He lost the tip of his left index finger after somebody bit it to the bone. "He thinks he's tough," said Bromberg. "He is a fighter-geared to attack all his life." But he is also subject to "basic emotional instability so severe that occasionally he breaks out crying for no apparent reason...
Paraffin is applied to that portion of the human body which might come in close contact with the gas (released by a weapon's firing) containing solid particles of burned nitrates in suspension. To determine whether a pistol (i.e., a gun) has been fired, tests are made of both hands. To determine whether a rifle has been fired, tests are made of both hands and the area on both sides of the face near the cheekbone, the cheek remaining in immediate contact with a rifle when the trigger is pulled...
...service, as any veteran, including Wade, well knows, a rifle is always referred to as a rifle. It is never, under fear of company punishment, called a gun (pistol). At Wade's press conference, this dialogue took place...
Against Cornell, the Crimson started out hotter than a two-dollar pistol, as they made every shot they took in the first four minutes of play and raced into a 15-5 lead. But, as one member of the team admitted, Harvard didn't seem to believe that beating Cornell was possible. With a ten-point lead they still didn't believe it. The Big Red scored 11 straight and gradually increased their margin to 40-33 at the half, driving repeatedly through Harvard's porous defense for easy baskets...