Word: pistoling
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...York City's Harlem, Negro capital of the U.S., a white policeman arrested a Negro woman for disorderly conduct. A Negro soldier, on leave, tried to stop him. Both went to the hospital, the policeman with a battered head, the soldier with a pistol wound in the shoulder. The story, much garbled, spread quickly through Harlem...
...blacksmith father; the black columns of Popolo d'ltalia, "my most cherished child"; the day in Milan when he needlessly barricaded his newspaper shop while his comrades elsewhere marched on Rome and waited until he arrived by railroad sleeper; the following day when, in black shirt and hip pistol, he stood before Vittorio Emanuele and said: "I have just come from a bloodless battle that had to be fought. I bring back to your Majesty the Italy of Vittorio Veneto, consecrated by a new victory...
...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...
Died. Dr. Richard ("Diamond Dick") Tanner, 73, onetime pistol prodigy; of complications resulting from a broken leg; in Norfolk, Neb. From 16 to 35, Dick amazed Wild West show audiences (including "Buffalo Bill" Cody's) with a brace of pearl-handled .44s. In 1909 he got his M.D., practiced in Norfolk for 15 years before neighbors knew they were being treated by the old pal of "Calamity Jane" and "Pawnee Bill...
...learned the truth of their relationship and didn't want Janet any more. This triangular deadlock, unsolvable within its own limits, was forced to a happy end for Ray and Janet when Pauline's plagiarized lit erary efforts were exposed and she chose the little pearl pistol as the best...