Word: pistoling
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Taking one look at the painting of pistol-packin' Betty (Annie Get Your Gun) Hutton on TIME'S April 24 cover, the Communist-licensed Berlin daily Neues Deutschland shrieked that the U.S. had discovered a deadly new weapon: "a warmonger with sex appeal...
...able, amiable President William L. Nicholas. There were two typewriter salesmen ahead of him, but the president's secretary let Professor Baker go in first ("This won't take long," he had told her). Face to face with Peru's president, Baker drew a pistol, fired five times, left Nicholas dying at his desk. Before the salesmen and secretary grasped what had happened, Baker strode out; he walked downstairs to the office of his department head, Professor Paul A. Maxwell, and killed him too. Then he walked calmly across the hall, gathered up his hat and coat...
...news stunned the campus. One alumnus suffered a heart attack. A posse was formed to track Baker down, on the guess that he might have headed for a wooded area near by. But Professor Baker had not gone far. Police found him dead in his own living room, his pistol beside him. Alongside was his final message: "Willy [President Nicholas] tried to fire the wrong person...
Armored Warfare. In High Point, N.C. Nollie Parker asked doctors to remove a .32-cal. pistol slug from the back of his head, walked calmly out of the hospital with his trophy and a slight headache...
Candy and toy store owners in the New Haven area are being terrorized by a ring of water pistol-selling Yale students, the Yale Daily News recently reported...