Word: assassin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embarrassed the Japanese.) He quarreled with other exiled Korean politicians. (Rhee was for continued passive resistance; other leaders favored violent action.) By World War II, the Provisional Government was almost defunct and Rhee turned over the Korean central agency in China to Kim Koo, Korea's master political assassin...
Little Jimmy is not even a distant relation of Nolan, the terrifying and terrified Judas of The Informer, or of the cold blooded Killer-Philosopher Michael McDara of The Assassin. In the intellectual twilight of the placid, humdrum Ireland that De Valera made, Liam O'Flaherty has become all quaintness and whimsy-and a little lost...
...keep of her poodle. Gunther names the only man who ever called F.D.R. an s.o.b. to his face: Leon Henderson. Myrna Loy was the President's favorite actress, and he loved poker. He saved and filed Christmas cards and he kept the bullet fired at him by an assassin in Miami. When F.D.R. flew to Casablanca, a strong swimmer was brought along to keep him afloat should the plane crash...
...against the State Department stand or fall on Professor Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins University. Again last week Lattimore took the stand in rebuttal, there showed himself a match for McCarthy-or the Daily Worker-in the technique of the vituperative smear. McCarthy, he said, was a "professional character assassin," Budenz "... a twisted and malignant personality...
...ridden government?' Surely you cannot deny that many men were told to go into Modena who had no legitimate business there . . ." The chamber exploded with cheers and boos. Togliatti cast aside his blue-serge-suit respectability, leaped to his feet, bellowed "Liar!" Other Communists surged up crying "Murderer! Assassin...