Word: behead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medieval theocracy. But they were reckoning without the Imam. Bustling back to his Red Sea domain with a shipload of wives and concubines, the Sword of Islam flashed commandingly. "I swear by Allah." he proclaimed from his palace balcony in the sun-charred seaport of Hodeida. "that I shall behead every black and every white whenever a complaint is lodged. There have been misdeeds-by hooligans and vainglorious fools and .. . . agents of the Christians. Gold has been found in the possession of some of these culprits [jeers]. Allah be praised, they are now in my grasp [cheers]. Some of them...
...long ago, young (32) General Ba Cut declared that he would behead Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as a warning of the power of the Hoa Hao, the piratical "religious" sect that once boasted an army of 20,000 and ruled large areas of Viet Nam as a feudal fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting...
...integrate themselves into the national army and form a peaceful political party, but the Hoa Hao replied by raiding Diem's outposts and blowing up bridges. Ba Cut, commander of the Hoa Hao army, who wears his hair neck-long in protest against the Geneva Treaty, threatened to behead Ngo Dinh Diem as a warning to those who did not fear the mighty...
Judge Youngdahl, 17 years a jurist, was Minnesota's three-time Republican governor when appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1951 by Harry Truman (in a neat political double play to behead Minnesota's Republican Party and help the state's Fair Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey). In last week's hearing he was the sole judge of his own fitness. The next day, in an outraged memorandum, he judged himself fit, retained the Lattimore case, rebuked federal prosecutors for acting "irresponsibly and recklessly." Their purpose, he concluded, was "to discredit, in the public mind...
...pedaling his tricycle outside his home when a terrorist bounded out of the woods. The terrorist swung his panga at the child's curly head and all but decapitated the boy. Captured, the Kikuyu tribesman said he had just taken the Mau Mau oath which pledged him to behead a European...