Word: pistoling
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Yankee Buccaneer has more than its share of pitched battles, broadsides, plank walkings, scurvy epidemics, pirate attacks and pistol-point escapes. It even has a man-eating shark which Farragut subdues. But it is still no great shakes as either Hollywood hokum or history...
...been building stone barracks, stoned a contingent of U.S. guards sent to bring down the flags. While guards tried to force their way in to restore order, the barrage of stones increased. A U.S. officer, whose wife and child had been killed by the Communists in China, raised his pistol and shot one Chinese. The other Americans regarded his shot as a signal and began firing. Once inside the compound, they were set upon by prisoners wielding clubs, sharpened poles and barbed-wired flails, but these attackers were shot down before they could close...
Then Carl put the pistol to his own temple, but three times it misfired. He walked to a nearby sporting-goods store and bought a new box of cartridges. In the basement of a nearby grocery, he reloaded and tried to kill himself once more. Again the gun missed fire...
When the police finally found him, Carl explained that his wife had begged him to end her suffering. He was only sorry that his pistol had let him down before he finished the job. "It wouldn't fire again," he said sadly. "I even bought new bullets for it, but it wouldn't fire again...
...Mickey Spillane novel. The Swedish Foreign Office at midweek denied that any Swedes had been manhandled. The city hall incident fell apart when Officer Hans Melin, a Swedish policeman assigned to Margaret's party during her visit, testified that the U.S. Secret Service men had not brandished a pistol and had not forbidden anyone to enter. Said Melin: "The American police officer was not armed on the occasion. I myself...