Word: pistols
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...magazines ominously appeared in the mailbox, along with almost daily missives from debt collectors. One morning the general himself appeared?in military fatigues, frothing at the mouth?and threatened to put me in a coffin. He pulled out a pistol-shape package, brandished it, then drove away. Was it a gun? Or simply a last-ditch attempt to scare...
...organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants [and] tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the Tonton in their grisly business, there is now even a ladies' auxiliary?the Fillette Lalo, a group of pistol-packing molls who are just as predatory as their male counterparts...
Chen said that the first assailant ran into the store at about 8:30 p.m., pointed a large pistol at his head and demanded that he open the cash register...
...were in London, having supper at the pub on the Thames where the gallows once stood where the highwayman Jack Sheppard swung back in the time of George I, and the river reminded us of the Mississippi, and pretty soon my brother was telling how he found a .32cal. pistol in a cornfield behind the house when he was 15 and carried it around on his person for a few days because, he said, "I just liked the feel of it." He had no idea whether the gun was loaded...
...have known my brother for almost 60 years and he never told me this before. I guess the gallows was what reminded him of it. Now if our spouses or children had been there, they would have been bored silly long before the conversation got around to the pistol, and they'd have started talking about the reform of the House of Lords or something, but the truth is I am terribly interested in what happened in my childhood, there being fewer and fewer people left who remember it, and with siblings, your minds meld and you piece together...