Word: pistolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building echoed deafeningly with rifle fire, pistol shots and grenade explosions. It needed some cautious maneuvering to recognize what corner not to go around. . . . The Rebels were on the floor below us, firing upward, while Loyalists shot down or dropped hand grenades. . . . Once a song floated upward amazingly from that doomed place below. A soldier next to me heard it just as he was about to draw the pin of a grenade. 'They're singing!' he said in a stupefied tone...
...caught making an illegal turn. While Officer Robert Fall wrote a summons, Driver Zwikel closed the car's windows, locked its doors, refused to come out. Officer Fall called a tow truck, which hauled Zwikel & car to headquarters. There Detective Walter Storms broke a window with his pistol butt. Warned Driver Zwikel as they jailed him: "You'll make my wife angry. I was supposed to meet her an hour...
...Park, 111. shoe Storekeeper Sam Ragalie boasted to a customer that he had just saved $150 from gunmen by keeping it in a shoebox, not in his till. Few minutes later the customer returned with a pistol, demanded and was given the shoebox...
...card to a plausible young German named Eugene George Weidmann. Eugene George Weidmann was discovered living at St. Cloud under the name of Siegfried Sauerbrey. Inspectors Poignant and Bourguin of the Paris police dropped in on him. Before they were halfway through the doorway Weidmann whipped out a pistol, wounded them both. Plunging ahead, they beat him into submission...
...more spine-tingling incident closed the day. After the bombing, Japanese patrols occupied 30 square blocks in Shanghai in the district where it occurred. The maneuver blocked traffic in the International Settlement and a U. S. Marine courier ignored a pistol leveled at him as he rode his motorcycle through the Japanese lines. When U.S. Marine commander, General Beaumont, learned that these Japanese patrols overlapped three blocks into the section of Shanghai under U. S. guard, he sent Colonel Charles F. B. Price to visit the Japanese commander and tell him to get his men out. The Marine officers...