Word: pistoling
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...Briand. Across the Seine, in a room on the Avenue Victor Emmanuel III, another world, figure wrote three short notes. One of them ended: "Goodbye now and thanks. I.K." The big, round-faced man rose from his desk, smoothed out the unmade bedclothes, lay down, shot himself with a pistol just below the heart...
...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...
...Minister's quiet summer home, Chequers, the Russian brought a Russian chambermaid. In stiff disapproval the regular Chequers maid looked on while the Russian woman made Molotov's bed. The eyes of the English maid nearly popped when the pillow was lifted. There lay a long, fat pistol...
George Bernard Shaw's advice of the week was that the U.S. should pull out of Japan, letting the threat of atomic bombing do the rest of the job. "Sitting in a country with a pistol in hand will only waste young people's lives," he said. Doubting that this advice would be heeded, he predicted cheerfully, "of course there will be another...
...military hospital, Tojo explained why he had tried to kill himself with a pistol instead of by traditional harakiri: he had had no aide (kaishaku) to stand by and strike off his head with a two-handed sword after he had slit his abdomen with a ceremonial dagger. In some recent Japanese pistol suicides a kaishaku with a pistol stood by to blow out the suicide's brains. Said Tojo: "I did not want to mess up my head...