Word: assassins
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...flanked, as always, by his bodyguards. A young man in a white suit, lurking in a corner, stepped out into the Senator's path, shoved a small revolver against his right side, pulled the trigger. There was a muffled explosion. One of the Long bodyguards grappled with the assassin. He fired again, searing the bodyguard's thumb. Then the young man in the white suit went down under a rain of submachine gun bullets...
...Hardin lost prestige by killing a cowpuncher. He only regained it when he killed a Mexican rustler two days later. Within four days he was in trouble again: when his cousin was arrested Hardin made a deal with "Wild Bill" for his release, was double-crossed, killed a hired assassin, escaped, trapped a posse, disarmed and undressed them, sent them home naked...
...often reads, opening it at random because he usually forgets what he has read before. His preternatural reluctance to talk about himself or other matters is one of the traits that forced sportswriters into an unparalleled display of nickname-coining last week. Among their inventions : Brown Bomber, Alabama Assassin, Sepia Slasher. Tan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter, Jolting Joe and Dead...
...head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted; an officer slashed the assassin over the head with a sabre. President Terra, followed by his guests, walked pleasantly out to his car, shouted, "They failed to kill me. Long live the March Revolution!" Hearing only the last and unaware of the shooting, the crowd affably took up the slogan they recognized. "Long live the March Revolution!" Later Dictator...
...many a man who voted for Garner for Vice President thought as Franklin Roosevelt did. Jittery journalists wrote pieces to the effect that never before was the health of a President more important. On the evening of Feb. 15, 1933, when an assassin in Miami pumped a gunful of bullets at the President-elect and succeeded in fatally wounding Mayor Cermak of Chicago,* many a voter sighed with relief that the U. S. had been spared Garner as President...