Word: assassinate
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...near you and with pain do I think of our everlasting separation; especially do your vacant, dismantled rooms sadden me. . . ." He was writing to her again ("Farewell with God, beloved angel, I embrace you with my whole heart. . . .") when she lay dying in Geneva, stabbed by a political assassin. The news, Franz Joseph thought, filled his cup. And he was right. In 1916, before he could see the ruin of his empire, Death brought him his long-overdue holiday...
...George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...
...This piece is openly provocative and cannot be interpreted in any other way than calling for Trotsky's assassination. You need only give the implements of assassination to the assassin to complete the task...
...borrow 100,000 francs from a Florentine merchant to get to his coronation. The sands were rapidly running out. With the help of his maternal adviser and by judicious getaways and judicious murders, Henri managed to hold on to the crown for 14 years. A few months before an assassin's knife finished Henri III and with him Catherine's family, Catherine herself had faded quietly out of the picture...
...enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed as a wealthy oilman and joined exclusive clubs; George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...