Word: pistoling
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...Margaret Island, in the Royal Palace in old Buda and across the river on the Corso of Pest, the city's life had become easy as a kept woman's. Then came the Russians. By this week Budapest found herself about to be deserted. With a Nazi pistol at her back, and the Russians in her streets, she faced destruction...
...traded the pistol to an officer for eight quarts of whiskey he had lugged out from the U.S. (the whiskey had cost the officer $2 a bottle, but the private could get $75 a bottle for it in the arid Admiralties...
...officer sold the pistol to another officer for $175. In two more sales the pistol passed to a soldier for three quarts of whiskey (original cost...
...soldier sold the pistol for $75. It was promptly resold for $125 to a sailor, who then sold it to a Navy officer for five quarts of whiskey...
...last week the liquor brought into the local market by the chain of pistol sales had pulled down the price of whiskey in the Admiralty Islands to $45 a bottle. And everybody was happy-everybody had made a profit...