Word: sidearmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MINISTRY OF MORALS. Women in Saudi Arabia who drive cars or show too much leg are routinely persecuted by the mutawain, the country's dreaded "morals police." Now non-Muslim women are rejoicing at a rumor that a U.S. servicewoman pulled her 9-mm sidearm on a mutawain zealot who tried to stop her from driving a military vehicle near the Dhahran air base. The mutawain officer has reportedly been suspended...
Despite the flamboyance of his rhetoric, officials say McGee has committed no crimes because he is not advocating "imminent lawless action." Indeed, the sidearm he packs in a leather holster is a slingshot. But Mayor John Norquist charges that McGee's firebrand behavior is "doing more to scare jobs away from his district" than to help it. "It's one thing to try to attract investment and capital," says Norquist. "It's another to use extortion...