Word: bandit
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...quence, Frasconi shows the crisp, yel low marshland laced with long black lines of birds that seem to pulsate on the paper. Denuded trees float above the steel-blue water, which itself ripples with the grain of the wood. His Homage to Francisco Sabater, honoring the anti-Franco bandit slain in 1960, shows the same respect for what wood...
...Another bandit pulled up in a panel truck. The messengers were quickly herded into the truck and handcuffed inside. One "cop" drove off in the black car. Two men pulled away with their panel truck of prisoners. The last "cop" got into the station wagon, turned on the key and started the engine...
...massacre was unmistakably the work of a bandit gang led by William Aranguren, nicknamed Desquite (Revenge). A onetime army private who flunked out of military police school, Aranguren wears an army captain's uniform, plans his attacks like grand military campaigns. To help assure his getaway after the slaughter, Aranguren had his men cut telephone lines to surrounding towns...
...between Liberals and Conservatives has degenerated over the years into banditry and blood lust virtually devoid of any political meaning. The senseless slaughter goes on although the Liberal and Conservative parties agreed to a truce in 1957. President Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative, has pressed the search for known bandits; but the campaign to hunt them down appears to make some bandit chieftains all the more savage. Until the roadside massacre, Aranguren usually released his robbery victims, but after slaughtering the 42 men, he gave the survivors an ominous warning to carry away with them: "It will happen again...
...cars had been uncoupled. He was ordered to proceed slowly up the track, leaving the 65 postal clerks in the abandoned cars unaware that anything was wrong. After about half a mile, a white blur emerged - it was a white sheet stretched between poles. "Here it is!" cried one bandit, and ordered Mills to halt atop Bridego Bridge. A truck waited below. The masked mobsters meanwhile had broken into the High Value coach, forced the five unarmed postal clerks to lie face down in a corner. Emptying the coach of 124 mail sacks, the mobsters tossed them down to confederates...