Word: pistoling
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...called on one John Green, a young Negro he had known in prison, "bought" a .22 pistol from him for $20, and invited Green along because he had "a good job setup in The Bronx." On the way, they prowled a dark Greenwich Village street, stuck up a frightened couple and stole $12. But by 12:30, as he led Green aimlessly around The Bronx, it became embarrassingly evident that he hadn't really planned a big robbery...
...Though it had been used in Chicago by pistol-packing Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as early...
...shows, too, and convincingly, that for Mainardi to have been a young Fascist was the most natural thing in the world, especially after Mussolini gave him a dramatic black shirt and a shiny pistol. Adolescent it all was-except perhaps for the otherwise respectable adults who were leading the way or cheering the Mainardis from the sidelines...
Last October, after three years of yearning and scheming, Pilot Ivan Kavic of the Yugoslav airlines loaded his wife and young son aboard his plane. Determined to make a new life in the free air of Switzerland, he forced his copilot at pistol point to fly to Zurich (TiME, Oct. 29). Tito's Communist government demanded Kavic's extradition; the Swiss would not yield him up. Free to do as he liked, Kavic tried for a job as a pilot on several European airlines. He was turned down. He asked for a copilot's berth. No luck...
...night in a St. Louis jail, Alben William Barkley Truitt, 18-year-old grandson of the Vice President, was released to continue his hitchhiking jaunt from a construction job in Alaska to Paducah, Ky. Police had picked him up on a downtown street carrying a loaded .32-cal. pistol. He had found the pistol, said Truitt, and was merely trying to sell it to buy food. The state refused to prosecute, on the grounds that Missouri law permits peaceful interstate travelers to be armed...