Word: assassins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three cushions, and behind them walked Gilbert Grandval. The Resident General's face was blue with fatigue. Climbing to the rostrum, Grandval addressed himself to Duval's widow, sitting near by. "Madame . . ." he began, but a storm of voices from the 4,000 assembled colons drowned him: "Assassin!" "Dirty Jew!" "Get out!" Madame Duval got up to leave. A chaplain next to her pulled her back down. "If you go, blood will be spilled." Grandval finished his speech, but as he drove away, the boos and jeers mingled with shouts of "Resign, resign...
...Friends. The anti-Tau-rum faction mobilizes under its natural leader, Washington's leading witch-hunter, Senator Jason Ransom. When an over-Taurumed African violet is left by accident in Ransom's car. and turns into a "huge writhing mass," the Senator, envisaging a "Red assassin," empties his revolver into the back-seat brush. Soon he is alerting his colleagues, "I can hardly believe the unbelievable extent of this conspiracy," and grabbing scare headlines, e.g., "RANSOM SAYS REDS PLAN ATTACK ON U.S. CURRENCY...
...head had tumbled from the same block. And just after, her brother Giacomo, already tortured with red-hot pincers, had his head smashed with an iron hammer, his throat slit, and his body quartered. Lover Olimpio, who had actually polished off Francesco with the help of a hired assassin, was not there that day. He had been murdered not long before...
Four score and ten years ago, a gunman jumped onto the stage at Ford's Theater in Washington, and fled, to be hunted down as an assassin. Last week in the African nation founded by American freedmen, one Paul Dunbar cast himself in the role of John Wilkes Booth; he was not playacting...
...drives, they lived in Detroit's Knickerbocker Apartments, a nest of friendly, frenzied C.I.O. officials. "We hardly ever slept at all," Reuther remembers. Thugs once beat him up in his own apartment. Later he moved to the north side, where a gun blast fired by a would-be assassin ripped into his right arm. Reuther lost blood copiously but never lost consciousness. "I decided," he said later, "to fight harder than ever...