Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guinea jungle, 1942: waves of Japanese soldiers are assaulting a U.S. position. For 21 hours straight, Army Sergeant David Rubitsky blasts away at the attackers with a .30-cal. machine gun, a .45-cal. pistol, a rifle and grenades. The smoke clears. Single-handed, Rubitsky, 25, has killed or wounded 500 to 600 of the enemy. After examining the scene, company commander J.M. Stehling recommends Rubitsky for the Congressional Medal of Honor. Stehling's commander, Lieut. Colonel Herbert Smith, approves and relays the word to his superior, Colonel John W. Mott. "You mean a Jew for the Congressional Medal...
...humanity. Ivory anklets and combs have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, and King Solomon is said to have sat upon an ivory throne. In its myriad forms, ivory has been a medium expressing both virtue and vice, creativity and crass extravagance. It has been used in rosary beads, pistol grips, lutes, dice, scepters, toothpicks, prayer wheels, fly whisks, mah-jongg tiles and chopsticks. In the past century, traders greedy for ivory attacked and burned African villages. Natives were sold into slavery and forced to shoulder the tusks out of the interior...
Each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funnelled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. It is a dollar that can be spent on buying bullets to put into a Mac-10 machine pistol or into an AK-47 sub-machine gun. And people should realize that...
When he reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid...
...ever truly loved. It was a sad and unfulfilled affair. On a September evening in 1931, after an argument with & her uncle, Raubal fatally shot herself. He had only one subsequent lover, a young blond named Eva Braun. In 1932, frustrated by Hitler's inattention, she also aimed a pistol at herself, but the attempt failed. Nearly 13 years later, under Berlin's streets, the drama would be eerily restaged when Hitler took Braun for his bride, 40 hours before their double suicide by pistol, poison and flames...