Word: pistolling
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...faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel; he has been repeatedly arrested for petty crimes and is fighting a long prison sentence for extortion. He suspects everyone: Bosnians...
...visiting American mentions to a shopkeeper in France or Italy that he is from Chicago, the shopkeeper is likely to approximate a pistol with an extended index finger and say, "Bang, bang...
...fugitives, who otherwise faced only state-level charges. Whatever the reason for the long stalemate, it gave way last Monday when federal agents arrested two Freemen leaders, LeRoy Schweitzer, 57, and Daniel Petersen, 53. An undercover agent posing as a seminar attendee was said to have pulled a pistol after feigning car trouble near the Clark ranch...
...when not reading Crime and Punishment (by Fido Dogstoyevsky) or Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute eloquence worthy of Buster Keaton. The put-upon pooch will then save Wallace in a breathless climax whose brio and ingenuity shame...
...asked $125 to shovel driveways. In Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, a 60-year old shoved his 70-year-old neighbor for accusing him of dumping snow on his car, and the man fell and died. In New York, notwithstanding its recent rosy crime statistics, two men with a 9-mm pistol reportedly relieved Bronx building superintendent Robert DeJesus of his snowblower. But other city dwellers deferred elaborately to one another on narrow-shoveled walks. In Washington, Abby Stone and her two daughters made sandwiches all Monday morning and spent the afternoon delivering food and blankets to the homeless in their emerald...