Word: barstool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...
...Blanche reported afterward. "The present was a fragmentation grenade." The gunman, a veteran killer who seemed to be losing his nerve after years of firefights in the shattered city, took back the grenade and proceeded to place it between the legs of a Lebanese official sitting on a barstool. As he laughed, the unsuspecting fellow spilled his drink, then fell off the stool. "The barman closed up early," wrote Blanche. "Grenades are bad for business...
...shuttle tragedy left its mark in some unexpected places. The New Yorker magazine, for example, had to stop its presses to change a cartoon in last week's issue in which a man seated on a barstool tells his companion, "I wish they'd shoot my congressman into space!" For all but the earliest copies of the magazine, the caption was rewritten to say, "I used to be a warm human being, but now, I'm sorry to say, I'm a bit of a swine...
...Last December, only two weeks after he arrived on St. Vincent, U.S. Master Sergeant Willie Washington was sitting in a bar when an islander named Keith Walker began taunting him about the U.S. presence. Tempers flared; Washington threw Walker to the floor, and another local retaliated by flinging a barstool at the American. At that point, Washington allegedly drew his gun and beat the second islander about the head with it. After arriving on the scene, police arrested only the two Vincentians. The incident merely intensified misgivings about the presence of arms...