Word: assassine
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Meyendorff, who is a relative of Princo Ussupov, the assassin of Rasputin, expressed "confidence in the leadership of Russia. Nowadays a leader must be supported by a majority of the people, especially the poorer classes, must be a good Marxist, and must have talent, Stalin has all three...
...Dwyer brought in one of his old pals, Angelo ("Julie") Catalano, State's witness. The two had not met since Gurino tried and failed to take his fellow mobster for a ride last spring because he feared that Catalano would talk. When Catalano saw his would-be assassin, he went white with terror, hid behind detectives. But as he listened to the whining confession, Catalano took heart, came out from behind his protectors, stared unbelievingly at the cringing fat man in the chair. At the end his smile was tipped with scorn. As for Vito Gurino, it looked...
...hour and forty minutes later, seven days almost to the minute from the time he walked into his peaceful garden to meet his assassin, the last of Leon Trotsky was removed from the furnace and funneled into an urn. His ashes weighed...
Next day Judge Carranza Trujillo committed Trotsky's assassin, pale, dark Frank Jackson, to trial for murder, committed Jackson's girl friend, Sylvia Ageloff, as accessory before the fact. The problem of Mexico City's tough, efficient police was not so much to make them talk as to keep them from being rubbed out before they talked too much...
Four Internationals. For 25 hours and 30 minutes Leon Trotsky hung on to life with the tenacity that had distinguished his career since he became a revolutionary at the age of 17. In the hospital he underwent two brain operations while his assassin was treated in a room across the hall. Natalie Sedova never left him. He lost consciousness soon after he was put to bed. If a man's past life passes before him at such times, some strange scenes appeared to Trotsky in his coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from...