Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Impatiently they admitted their acts. As Sternists and "sons of Palestine," they had come to Cairo for the express purpose of killing Moyne, they said. Tsouri and Hakim had leaped on the running board of Lord Moyne's car. Hakim had shot the Minister, Tsouri had stabbed his chauffeur to death. Then the prisoners began to expound the Stern credo of violence. They justified the assassination as an act of war against a foreign invader (Britain). Austere Mahmoud Mansour Bey, the presiding judge, tried vainly to halt the torrent of burning words. At last he ordered reporters...
Down on the luncheon table Ambassador Oumansky plumped his ambassadorial payroll. It listed five full-time diplomats, two military attaches, 18 miscellaneous employes, including chauffeur and servants. Then Oumansky insisted that Ambassador Messersmith make a solemn inspection of the Embassy. The old Parada mansion, though roomy and pretentious, was obviously not big enough to house hundreds of agents...
...black sedan from the Soviet Embassy stopped one day last week before a modest bungalow on Washington's 21st Street Northeast. A chauffeur delivered a package, with these instructions to the housewife who opened the door: "Handle carefully. For the Honorable Harry D. White...
...possibility. If the President of the U.S. dies, the Senate President pro tem becomes the de facto Vice President of the U.S. (without inheriting the right of succession). And in that event, Spoilsman McKellar would also get a $5,000-a-year salary increase, plus a Government automobile, with chauffeur...
...Italy the Army suddenly had a crime wave on its hands. Soldiers on leave in Rome swapped rumors of robbery and murder. Bandits had held up the chauffeur of Polish Lieut. General Wladyslaw Anders when he was returning in the general's super-Cadillac from delivering the general to the airport. Military supplies were stolen. A cafe owner was shot to death. Nervous citizens stayed out of alleys, wondered what would happen when the weather got colder and hungry desperadoes grew more desperate...