Word: assassine
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...anything, they would like John Paul Jones's kidneys for their famed medical museum, there to rest alongside such other patriotic exhibits as a lock of Lincoln's hair, a slide of U.S. Grant's throat cancer, sections of vertebrae (complete with bullet holes) of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and of assassinated President James A. Garfield...
...long-suffering driver of Adlai Stevenson's plunging Sno-Cat, I have in the past few days been called everything from assassin to near hero and perpetrator of overambitious publicity stunts. Now, I have further been taunted by having my beloved Mt. Hood spirited across the river to Washington on the pages of TIME, Feb. 27. Please, sir, desist from this journalistic gerrymandering; give us back our mountain and let Washington Republicans be content to scare Adlai with such common threats as airplane trouble...
Iran's Premier Hussein Ala arrived patched with adhesive tape where the revolver, hurled by a frustrated assassin, had nicked his head a fortnight ago. With Macmillan came Britain's chief military man, General Sir Gerald Templer. Turkey's bland Premier Adnan Menderes arrived last, as befitted the nation with METO's biggest army. Representing the U.S. as "observer" and backstage sponsor was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Waldemar J. Gallman and Admiral John H. Cassady, commander of all U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean...
Next door to Morocco, Algerian troublemakers, not to be outdone, persisted in shooting up the place. In Algiers an assassin fired three shots from his bicycle, disappeared leaving a police commissioner dead on the pavement. In Constantine, a rebel stamping ground in eastern Algeria, French troops battled guerrilla bandits, captured 77. Later, a French troop detachment and then an army supply truck were ambushed. The week's dead...
...police station the assailant, 32-year-old Muzaffar Ali Zolgadr, feigned insanity in an effort to conceal the fact that he actually was an assassin on assignment. But on his undershirt, cops found two messages written in red ink: "The military pact and oil agreement must be abrogated and all Moslem rules enforced. Islam is above all." The second was from the Koran: "Those who get killed for God and for His rules are not dead but alive...