Word: assassinate
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...head. As we rode, he and the driver argued over what should happen to me. The usual procedure, if they catch a Yahudi, is to shoot him at once. Finally, the driver said: "Look, would I be carrying a Yahudi?" That seemed to do the trick, so the assassin motioned him to halt at a side road. As he climbed out, he glanced up & down for British patrols, then turned towards me and, bringing his gun up to his brow, he said: "B'khatirkum," meaning "by your leave." I nodded, found all I could say was: "Thanks...
Irwin Shaw, 34, veteran promising-young-playwright (Bury the Dead, The Assassin), invited by the New Republic to be its new drama critic, won a scorchingwarm welcome to the New York Drama Critics' Circle. Wrote New York Daily News Critic John Chapman to Newcomer Shaw, who once carved the hides from the critics for criticizing his plays: "I will want to follow every syllable of Mr. Shaw's postmortems. ... I will be sitting at the foot of a master eager for the smallest drops of instruction. ... I shall read his every word, hoping ... to learn more about...
This spring his house was bombed while he was away. Last week, as Lyuh's car drove down a street near his home, a young gunman fired three shots. Two of them found their mark. A police lieutenant rushed out to capture the assassin, grappled with Lyuh's bodyguard instead. The murderer got away. Two hours later, in a Seoul hospital, Death, as it must to all men, came to Lyuh Woon Heung...
Army uniforms got out. Three, armed with Sten guns, ambled upstairs. Outside the council chamber one man knocked a guard sprawling while another burst into the room. There, around a large table, sat Burma's interim Cabinet. Four bursts from the assassin's Sten gun sprayed the room. Most of the ministers were hit in the chest. Six slumped to the floor, dead. Two were mortally wounded. As ministerial blood trickled into a secretary's office next door, the gunmen strolled from the building, got in the jeep, drove away at 5 m.p.h...
From the Senate Office Building, the would-be assassin walked quietly out into the street. Within two hours police found him, learned that he was an ex-Capitol policeman named William L. Kaiser and fetched him back to be identified by Bricker...