Word: pistoling
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...bank's manager walked up, Fox pulled out his pistol and said: "I want all the money-and I'm not fooling." He kept the manager covered while a woman teller scooped $8,155 in currency into a canvas bag and brought it to him. He backed to the door, walked out, made a getaway...
...them to take off their clothes. The automobile moved off through the darkness, finally pulled up beside a cornfield. Daniels forced the Niebels to walk out among the rustling stalks. "Kneel down," he ordered. They knelt-naked, shivering, sick with terror. West shot Mrs. Niebel in the stomach. His pistol jammed. Daniels shot her in the head. He fired twice more, and Niebel and his daughter toppled over, dying. The two gunmen walked back to their car and drove away...
...road in the hope of getting false identification and a new getaway car. He leaped out, looked in at a man and woman, said: "You're going too fast-give me your driver's license." The driver, a farmer named James Smith, refused. Johnny West pulled a pistol, shot him through the head...
...minutes later when they spotted a perfect getaway car-a big Dodge haulaway truck with four new Studebakers on its rear decks-parked in some trees near the town of Tiffin. The truck driver was asleep. West said: "I'll take care of him," and yanked out his pistol again...
Like most such books, this one remains readable despite all the impediments that a style of exaggerated journalese can throw in the way. Example: "With his nostrils distended by the provocative odor from 600 half-barrels of pistol powder, which he had foresightedly ordered from London, Thomas now turned into a full-fledged, fire-eating merchant of death...