Word: pistoling
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...roamed the mining settlements of the hill country like a hunter; he raided bootleggers (often without benefit of a search warrant), impounded slot machines and took a brutal delight in pistol-whipping lawbreakers and cursing their wives and womenfolk. One day his automobile blew up as he stepped on the starter-somebody had inserted dynamite caps in the engine. Somehow Ambrose Metcalfe walked away unhurt.* Once a moonshiner blasted at him with a shotgun; he was only grazed...
...just 16 square feet of space to cover. A big timing clock was set up. Bob Hoelzle and his bride-to-be, a pretty telephone operator named Frances Noll, were stationed at a vantage point in the front yard. Then the mayor started the proceedings by firing a pistol...
...noon, the pace of the looting had slowed. Most people went stolidly about their business. Vegetable hawkers shouted their wares. In the distance, occasional pistol shots sounded. At the river bank, two black columns of smoke from burning docks rose into the sunny, hazy...
Robert L. Pratt '51, an ROTC student, will face a court-martial Friday to be tried for the theft of an army pistol from his instructor, Captain Paul J. Curtin, assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics...
...officials of the court will be in uniform and will wear pistol belts. Army tradition dictates that the detail of courtmartial must be armed, and before the war members of military courts were sabers. Later the sabers gave way to pistols, which in turn were succeeded by pistol belts...