Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written authorization of the board or officer in charge of said college or university shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year or both. For the purpose of this paragraph "firearm" shall mean any pistol, revolver, rifle or smoothbore arm from which a shot, bullet or pellet can be discharged by whatever means...
Masterminding a personal jail break with inane aplomb, he whittles an imitation pistol out of soap and blackens it with shoe polish. The ruse works, and he escapes into a drenching rain with two guards as hostages. He prods them sullenly forward until they turn warily and discover that Allen's pistol hand is a gleaming blob of soap bubbles. And so it goes, with sight gags interspersed with word foolery. The offbeat one-liner is Allen's comic forte, as when he speaks of a girl he was once fond of: "I used to make obscene telephone...
Died. Lou Stillman, 82, tough-talking, cigar-chewing patriarch of Stillman's Gym, for 38 years a monument to the prizefight game; in Santa Barbara, Calif. With an epic command of abusive language and a pistol in his pocket, Stillman presided from 1921 to 1959 over the gloomy New York City arena where Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier and Primo Camera-among thousands of others-worked out during their careers. "Big or small, champ or bum," he said, "I treated 'em all alike -bad. If you treat 'em like humans, they'll eat you alive...
Chuyen had already been given a massive dose of morphine, bundled into a boat and shot to death with a .22-cal. pistol. His body, weighted with chains, was dumped into either the deep, mud-bottomed Giang River or the South China Sea. Despite weeks of full-time dredging by three ships, Chuyen's body has not been recovered...
...bloodier and grimmer than they had let on. TIME learned last week. There was evidence of a wild struggle with the killer or killers as Sharon and another victim, Hair Stylist Jay Sebring, 35, were slashed repeatedly while they fought for their lives. A large number of pistol bullets were embedded in the walls and ceiling. Blood was spattered over most of the living room walls, and pools of blood and bloody footprints led into a hall, indicating a vain struggle to escape. One set of prints, possibly a killer's, led out into the hall, then back into...