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Word: pistols (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general store passing sentence on a prisoner who knows his fate is being decided in that moment by the famous Judge Roy Bean. Bean is holding a whiskey bottle on its side in his left hand while he bangs out the verdict with the butt of the pistol in his right hand. A man in the crowd says to his children, "Look, there's Judge Roy Bean." His children don't know who Judge Roy Bean is so they don't get very excited. The man remembers that the Judge Roy Bean TV series stopped before they would have been...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...though they were mine. Instead, I was an observer, looking at a situation in which I had no part. I was the analyst sitting behind a two-way mirror, watching and interpreting the actions of group therapy participants. Miller conveyed his message, but bridled its effect. He fired a pistol and I saw a flag fly out from the muzzle saying "Bang...

Author: By Phil Lebowitz, | Title: The Price at the Wilbur through Saturday | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

Looking up the address of Baroness Alix de Rothschild in the Paris phone directory, Construction Worker Josef Stadnik proceeded to her duplex apartment, where he confronted her son, David, 27, with a pistol. Demanding 2,000,000 francs ($360,000) to spare David's life, the nervous gunman forced the young heir to call his father, Rothschild Bank President Baron Guy de Rothschild, for the ransom. No sooner said than done. "In a situation like mine, you know, with all the contacts you have, it is not hard to find a big sum," David later explained. When Baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...Holy Cross fans like a particular kind of football-good, crisp football. The crowd on the far side rose to its feet after defensive back Mike Jordan collided with big Pete Varney, causing Pistol Pete to get up a little slowly. It was the play of the day. Of course, Varney wasn't hurting very long, but the fact that any back could hit Varney with such results is surprising...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...time of the pistol-packing renegade had run out-worldwide. In 1909, they met their appropriately gory end, undone by two new enemies, the federates and the 20th century. As Butch and the Kid, respectively, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are afflicted with cinematic schizophrenia. One moment they are sinewy, battered remnants of a discarded tradition. The next they are low comedians whose chaffing relationship -and dialogue-could have been lifted from a Batman and Robin episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Double Vision | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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