Word: cains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency, TIME has learned that the agency went to Momo Salvatore ("Sam") Giancana, a high-ranking Mafia don who ruled Chicago's gangland with a bloody hand. The mission: kill Castro. For help, Giancana turned to one of the most nimble and conniving figures in the Mafia: Richard Cain, who had been the Mafia's agent in the enemy camp: a detective on Chicago's police force...
Among his other accomplishments, Cain spoke Spanish fluently. With the consent of the CIA, intelligence sources say, Detective Cain began recruiting Spanish-speaking toughs on the Windy City's West Side. Some of the hoodlums were sent to Miami and Central America for training in commando tactics...
...husband, I drive with him. He had an accident about four years ago. Driving, I take care of him. But every now and then I go out like tonight. It's like this. I can't leave him. You grow to love a person and you cain't cut it off. But he cain't give me what I want any more. Now I'm not talking about going out and finding a young feller or nothing...But sometimes you jes have to lay down with somebody...every now and then...to feel right...
...World was the nation's most articulate Democratic newspaper, and Lippmann's stately leaders became required reading for policymakers of all persuasions. When Lippmann later took command of the World's editorial page, he transformed it into an austere daily seminar. Novelist James M. Cain, then an editorial associate, warned Lippmann that not all World readers were up to the demands that he made on their intelligence. "You are always trying to dredge up basic principles," Cain said. "Now if what you've got to blow is a bugle, there isn't any sense...
While Edmondson is a deft public speaker, Bellmon, who looks more like a Green Bay Packer than a Senator, never knows what to do with his hands and stumbles over every speech. But that wins him sympathy. "Pore Henry," Oklahomans say somewhat admiringly, "cain't speak worth a damn." Bellmon by a hair...