Search Details

Word: pistols (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...have a video camera, heard the commotion and shot a video of the scene. It was surreal, with the moon shrouded by fog in the darkness. People were yelling and running in all directions. Some of the soldiers apparently tackled the shooter. A civilian-issued M-16 rifle, a pistol and another weapon were confiscated by military investigators. The injuries ranged from superficial to critical. Most were shot in the chest and lower extremities. One was taken to Duke Medical Center. He was shot in the neck, but is expected to live. Contrary to earlier reports, only one suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUNFIRE AT ARMY BASE | 10/27/1995 | See Source »

...along with his supervisor, turned in his badge. And in July, another of those 44 officers, Michael Falvo, shot and killed a 14-year-old Latino boy in the Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. The police version is that the boy, Jose Antonio Gutierrez, pointed a TEC-9 pistol at Falvo as the officer arrived, responding to a report of teens with a shotgun. Witnesses insist Gutierrez had already thrown his gun over a fence when the police approached and was holding a flashlight. Falvo has been temporarily assigned to a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CROOKED BLUE LINE | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

Undiscouraged, Conway pushed forward, carryinghis pistol in his left hand, until the Germangunners had been killed or captured, according tothe citation he received with his medal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Leverett House Master Dies | 7/14/1995 | See Source »

...TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports. Haitian folk singer Mano Charlemagne, the putative winner, performs songs urging his fellow countrymen to kill all former Tontons Macoutes and dump their corpses on the doorstep of the U.S. special forces. At a recent campaign rally, he suddenly whipped out a .45-caliber pistol from his belt when a disturbance broke out. "His political symbol was a guitar," Drummond says. "He apparently has no platform and no plans for improving the miserable living conditions in the capital city of 1.5 million people. "The first thing he plans to do once elected? Give free concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI . . . RACING TO CLAIM VICTORY | 7/12/1995 | See Source »

...sometime dock worker, would get drunk and then "bring out his guns," Margaret says. He would shoot up the house as their three children, now ages 22, 15 and 13, dived for cover under the beds. According to Margaret, one night Gary shot her in the arm with a pistol. Afraid to report the incident to the police, she packed up the children a few months later and moved from their St. Louis home to Chatsworth, Georgia. But Gary hired a detective who found her there, then hired a lawyer to wage a custody battle. Randolph had no money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL ASSISTANCE MAY END TOO | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | Next