Word: chieftains
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Uncle Giorgio was the sagest bandit chieftain in Sicily and, as a man of rugged common sense, considerably disturbed about his favorite nephew, Aquila. Palermo University had turned the poor boy into an intellectual. In particular, Aquila had gone overboard for the doctrines in the books of Oxford's Professor Lissom, the great advocate of free love and flexible philosophy. Clearly, the boy's only hope was his beautiful, semiliterate fiancee, Anisetta, who had a down-to-earth determination to marry Aquila and start having twelve children right away...
...Formula. In a statement issued after his arrest, however, FBI Chieftain J. Edgar Hoover charged that Slack, a World War II supervisor at the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn., had given Harry Gold samples of a secret,' high-powered explosive called RDX-and data on its manufacture. At the same time, the FBI made public the names of two Russian officials accused of directing Harry Gold in his espionage activities. Unfortunately, the FBI added, the two Russians had already left...
...reinforced by garrison troops moved down at night from nearby Tingo, Odría's forces counterattacked, recaptured all points, crushed the rebellion. At least 50 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, scores more wounded. By noon, except for occasional sniping from rooftops, the uprising was over. Rebel Chieftain Mostajo was arrested, then released because the army feared that jailing would put him in a martyr's niche...
...MacLeans to listen to insolent beggars," replied the local chieftain, Lachlan MacLean, but, he added, if the Spaniard would lend him 100 men-at-arms, he could have all the food he liked-provided he paid...
...canny chieftain returned the men-at-arms, but he kept three Spanish officers behind as hostages and sent his young kinsman, Donald MacLean, along to collect the gold on the spot. Once on board, Donald was clapped in irons, and-hostages or no hostages-the galleon hoisted sail and headed out to sea. A short while later a hideous explosion-it was young MacLean, they say, who touched it off-rocked the quiet harbor, and the Spanish ship settled peacefully below the waves, ten fathoms down. Only the captain's dog and three sailors escaped drowning...