Word: butchers
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...sequence, shot while the starvation was at its postwar worst, that shows a well-dressed, obviously cultivated man, his coat laid neatly aside and his sleeves rolled tidily to his elbows, squatting on a main thoroughfare in Berlin and hacking savagely with a butcher's knife at the bloated corpse of a horse...
What they saw was a thin, balding man of 55 who looked more like a bank clerk than a butcher: a thin mouth between protruding ears, a long, narrow nose, deep set blue eyes, a high, often wrinkled brow. He looked puny beside two burly,, blue clad Israeli policemen. When he stood, he resembled a stork more than a soldier...
...expediency, for without general agreement of principle, they would not be elected. Brademas added that mail matters only when the issue is not one of personal principle. Quoting a colleague's paraphrase of Burke, he said, "If they wanted decisions made by weighting mail, they would have elected a butcher...
...take garbage and make it acceptable to people in the street," Tarashinsky explains. "We take a nylon parachute and dissect it just like a butcher takes a cow apart. We use it all." In late 1959, Tarashinsky bought 200,000 surplus ammunition cans from the Army for 12? apiece. He found few takers until he discovered that the handles tilted to make an excellent shoe rest, so he peddled them as shoeshine stands, sold 196,000 to one customer for 20? apiece. "I'm known as the king of the ammo cans," says Tarashinsky...
...times in the U.S., jailed in Wisconsin, Ohio and California (vagrancy, assault, draft dodging, theft, rape), joined Castro's forces in December 1957 and was made a captain. The U.S. canceled his citizenship with alacrity, and eventually even the Cubans could not stomach the man they called "the butcher." Last May, Marks fled Cuba in a boat, made it to Florida and disappeared into Mexico. Last week he was arrested in Manhattan, charged with illegally entering the U.S. on July 22 without a proper visa. Deportation proceedings are under way to send him back to Mexico-or Cuba...