Word: assassine
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...hobby of collecting likenesses of President Abraham Lincoln grew into a unique historical archive (more than 200,000 pictures of Civil War personalities), the source for the busts of the 16th President on the $5 bill and the copper 1 ?piece, who also turned up a rare photo of Assassin John Wilkes Booth attentively listening in the audience at Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address; in Manhattan...
Shade himself cannot be asked about his intentions, because he is dead-shot by Gradus, a Zemblan assassin who was aiming at the exile king (the murderer claimed to be merely an escaped maniac named Jack Grey, and was believed by police...
...shouted "Allah is great!", and produced a pistol (steel, of course). He blazed away at the kneeling Sukarno, missed him, but wounded five persons around him. The Indonesians tried to implicate the Dutch in this fifth attempt on Sukarno's life in five years by declaring that the assassin's pistol was "Dutch made." But the ploy was as trans parent as the halfhearted invasion of Netherlands New Guinea last week, in which 40 Indonesian paratroopers dropped into the Dutch colony and were routed by the defenders. Only purpose of the "invasion" seemed to be to keep...
...down by French soldiers. Votive candles flickered where the demonstrators had fallen. A bloodstained raincoat and a pair of women's shoes were placed at the foot of a tree, flanked by bouquets of red carnations and white daisies. Bitterness remained: a hand-lettered sign read, "The real assassin is De Gaulle." Flight to Death? The suburb of Bab-el-Oued, where fighting had first broken out between S.A.O. terrorists and French troops, was sealed tight for six days by a cordon of 10,000 soldiers. House-to-house searches turned up 1,000 weapons as well as stocks...
...nature of politics and violence with a mystical intensity that shocks the rationalistic Englishman. There is a pet fox in the attic. Also in the attic, though Augustine does not know it, is a young, half-crazed fanatic sought by the police as a member of a proto-Nazi assassin band dedicated to the murder of liberal politicians. This ur-Nazi hangs himself before he can enact his fantasies of "purifying" Germany through selective murder, leaving another fox in another attic, Adolf Hitler, to climb to his yet unimaginable destiny...