Word: pistoling
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...stop his negotiations. He told his friend, Mexico's Archbishop Luis María Martinez, about the threats, begged the archbishop to say a funeral mass for him if he were killed. He also wrote to a friend in Spain, asked him to send a pistol by air express. It did not arrive in time...
...given their friend money and a letter of recommendation, but could not give him a visa, Fleitas flared up. "That's just like you Franco swine," he shouted. Then he yanked out a .38 automatic and shot Gallostra in the stomach. As Gallostra doubled over, Fleitas switched the pistol to his left hand and shot him through the head. "I killed him!" he shouted...
...other two hid out. A sheriff's posse was organized to track them down-and the peerless Hogjaw and his hounds were requisitioned from the prison farm. Hogjaw turned up, burly and cocky, in a bright red shirt and striped pants. He belted on a pistol and holster, and at rainy daybreak put three dogs, High Rollin' Red, Nigger and Alabama, on the trail...
...fortnight before Fieldsend's trial date, Bertie Holliday registered at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Virginia Water, Surrey, asked to be called at 9 o'clock next morning. When a maid tried to waken him, she found him dead; he had shot himself with a pistol-walking stick. Detectives checked the suicide, found that they had their jewel thief; Fieldsend was Holliday, and Barry had killed Bertie...
After the Bonner family has been thoroughly disrupted by the trial which Mrs. Bonner wins, Mr. Bonner resorts to such dubious measures as pulling a chocolate pistol on his wife, and later bursting into tears...