Word: pistoling
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...counting the ayes on a standing vote on a rule to provide two hours of debate on a bill regarding Mexican immigrants. In the gallery, the woman and her companions took back-row seats, observed the proceedings for a minute or two. Then all three whipped out German automatic pistols. The woman opened fire first, walking down the aisle to the front of the gallery, holding her pistol with both hands. "Puerto Rico is not free!" she screamed. The men opened fire a moment later, spraying bullets all over the chamber, pausing only to reload...
...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
...varsity pistol team remained without a victory yesterday as previously winless M.I.T. dealt them their fifth loss, 1275 to 1133. The match was conducted in the recently constructed firing range beneath the University squash courts...
...varsity pistol team last night elected Ralph Lyman Brown, Jr. '54 of Cambridge and Chevy Chase, Md., to captain the squad in its first season...
...until Gogarty upset the mutual trust one dark night by firing a revolver into a pile of saucepans that hung above the sleeping poet's pillow. In so far as he ever does, Gogarty blames himself for not having noted at the time "the latent lunacy" of his pistol-shy pal; but he explains that "it is one thing to study lunacy in an asylum, another . . . to recognize it in a friend...