Word: assassins
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...Einstein took the entrance examinations for the Polytechnicum in Zurich, Switzerland. He failed, but got in a year later. At Zurich he completed his formal scientific education, became fast friends with the Austrian Socialist leader, political assassin and physicist, Friedrich Adler...
...high time," he trumpeted, "that Congress has the facts. If war is declared on me I propose to wage it with the weapons of an open warrior, not those of a stealthy assassin...
...According to Ptolomaeus Lucemsis, a medieval chronicler, Eleanor of Castile, wife of England's Edward I, gave the first aid after an assassin's attack at Acre...
Trotsky took precautions. An old Bolshevik, he knew how assassinations are rigged. His house at Coyoacan was an arsenal. Searchlights played on it by night. The Mexican Government provided Trotsky with a 24-hour military guard. He had a private guard of revolver-toting secretaries (one of whom, an American, was kidnaped and murdered during the first attempt against Trotsky). But the assassin, allegedly an agent of the NKVD (Russian Secret Police), arrived in broad daylight, introduced to Trotsky's circle in the guise of a friend. One day as Trotsky sat reading a paper, this friend, Frank Jackson...
...Jacques van den Dreschd (he is a Belgian traveling on false Canadian papers), is still in a Mexico City jail. A month ago, Manhattan's socialist New Leader reported that the FBI, at the request of the Mexican Government, was working on his case. Jackson had committed an assassin's No. 1 crime: he had failed to escape. Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist who lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, f Translated...