Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank's manager walked up, Fox pulled out his pistol and said: "I want all the money-and I'm not fooling." He kept the manager covered while a woman teller scooped $8,155 in currency into a canvas bag and brought it to him. He backed to the door, walked out, made a getaway...
...Frank Goldfuss, looked out an upstairs window, saw him, called for her husband. The couple ran downstairs, backed out their car, drove around the block and intercepted the robber. "You hurt our dog," screamed Mrs. Goldfuss. "I'm going to call a cop." Fox yanked out his pistol, aimed it at her, pulled the trigger. It failed to fire. Goldfuss leaped out and jumped...
...road in the hope of getting false identification and a new getaway car. He leaped out, looked in at a man and woman, said: "You're going too fast-give me your driver's license." The driver, a farmer named James Smith, refused. Johnny West pulled a pistol, shot him through the head...
...minutes later when they spotted a perfect getaway car-a big Dodge haulaway truck with four new Studebakers on its rear decks-parked in some trees near the town of Tiffin. The truck driver was asleep. West said: "I'll take care of him," and yanked out his pistol again...
Like most such books, this one remains readable despite all the impediments that a style of exaggerated journalese can throw in the way. Example: "With his nostrils distended by the provocative odor from 600 half-barrels of pistol powder, which he had foresightedly ordered from London, Thomas now turned into a full-fledged, fire-eating merchant of death...