Word: assassine
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...Caxton text briskly refurbished into up-to-date English by Editor Harry J. Owens of Chicago's Lakeside Press, Reynard emerges again, a lively and unscrupulous opportunist, still happy to live by his wits in picturesque unrespectability. "A thief, a traitor and an assassin"-in the words of his archenemy, Isengrim the Wolf-Reynard remains a likable rascal...
...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
...Pathe Studios in Joinville, a suburb of Paris, dozens of nail-straighteners were hard at work last week. With new nails scarce or unobtainable, their labors were needed to make scenery for a movie to be called L'Assassin Chantait. In Paris offices, French cinemagnates and U.S. and British moneymen were equally busy making deals and filling the French movie world with rumors of great things to come...
...assassin, a lean, pale, 26-year-old Egyptian lawyer named Mahmud Issawi, submitted impassively to arrest. To the police he arrogantly proclaimed the pro-Naziism which had earned him long internment. He had been released last Autumn-by order of Maher Pasha...
...midnight broadcast Radio Bucharest reported that "the Government at present is master of the situation." (Earlier Radio Bucharest reported that a political assassin had tried, but failed, to kill Premier General Nicolai Radescu...