Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went that night to mingle with the shirtsleeved crowd in the local Somoza-founded Workers' Club. It was just after 11 o'clock on Sept. 21-Somoza has always thought that 21 was his lucky number-when one of the celebrators pulled a snub-nosed Smith and Wesson .38 revolver and opened fire on the strongman...
...Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. In Wesson, Miss., the Enterprise carried a classified ad: "I am going to sell everything I can and will sell cheap. I have many odds and ends that will be a help to many as everything is so expensive. I have jewelry galore, a beautiful yo-yo bedspread that won first prize at the fair. Hoping I can sell out to go where I can be with someone, thanking one and all in advance...
...press conference that he too was a diplomat who owned a rod. Dulles was saying that he did not object to fingerprinting-a bureaucratic procedure that strikes Europeans as degrading. Why? Because he himself had submitted to fingerprinting every year to get a permit for his .38-cal. Smith & Wesson, serial number 242332. "What do you use a revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given him the pistol in 1917, when...
...year-old French poodle, Pepe, Dulles headed north to Lake Ontario's Duck Island for his first two-week vacation since joining President Eisenhower's Administration. Duck Island is in Canada, and Dulles has arrangements with the Canadian government that will protect him better than Smith & Wesson No. 242332 from foolish questioners...
...many a sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...