Word: pistoling
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...narrow street. A machine gun let go from the top story of a high building across from the Hotel de Ville. Then other machine guns and rifles fired from above. Everything stopped. People dived under cars, trucks, jeeps, while every man who had a gun or a pistol-and hundreds had-started firing. The thousands of pedestrians in the square stampeded, scattered, fell flat, piled three or four deep in places...
...achieved below Warsaw on the Vistula, where wily, leathery Marshal Konev captured the important rail town of Sandomierz, destroyed the Nazi garrison of three divisions, enlarged his bridgehead across the Vistula to 1,600 square miles. Adolf Hitler was said to have called Konev's position "a pistol pointed at the German empire...
...fire to the consulate. As the Germans had locked themselves in for privacy, the firemen found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...
...officers had gladly, if scornfully, done business with him: he had given them arms, troops, honors, for a time even victories. Now they had the payoff: short of a wholesale uprising, they were completely under the control of the Nazis, who had to fight to the last pistol bullet, because for them there could be no next...
Finally, choose to use a pistol...