Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home near Havana, found a squad of soldiers scouring the bushes for an insurrecto, lent them a flashlight and went back to bed. Next morning Papa discovered his dog Machakos (breed: "Cuban") dead of a head wound, presumably inflicted with a rifle butt, stormed down to the local military post but got no explanation, mournfully listed the pooch "killed in action...
Snub-nosed, bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 7, on leave from Mamma Rita Hayworth, who is filmmaking in California, for a holiday in France with Papa Aly Khan, trained for the event by chomping an eclair and sloshing it down with lemonade, then went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa...
Last week, in a Page One Houston Post story that got to the commercial core of the matter, Reporter John Davis, 35, wrote that "there is absolutely no control over pistol sales."* Reported Davis: "In a shopping tour of gunshops and pawnshops, one thing was apparent: all you need to buy a $29.50 pistol in Houston is $29.50." Backing up his story, the Post ran a three-column cut of a .32-cal. Harrington & Richardson revolver bought by Davis-and a pawnshop's receipt for $29.50. Newsman Davis was not even asked for identification, despite a seldom-enforced, awkwardly...
...after Davis' story ran in the Post (circ. 203,743), Houston Justice of the Peace Dave Thompson summoned a court of inquiry and decided that the only way to halt Houston's armaments race was by "strict enforcement" of the law requiring gun buyers to show a certificate. Justice Thompson's next step: to issue arrest warrants for six Houston gun dealers and for Reporter Davis, who had already got rid of his pistol and protested that he wouldn't own one at any price-even...
Scratch One. In Philadelphia, after Detective Edward Pushkarwicz got poison ivy investigating a cash and stamp theft from a small post office, he arrested a suspect at home on finding a bottle of poison ivy lotion in the bedroom...