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Word: condor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real grief and real blood. The bestselling Matarese Circle has at the base of its plot the idea of the original assassins, the hashshashin, a bunch of hashheads who practiced contract murders at the behest of an "Old Man of the Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even a Day of the Dolphin-all equally preposterous and plausible, thanks to the strapped imaginations of real-life bureaucrats. Who but a hack could have thought up 1978's Bulgarian defector "poison umbrella" caper in London? The first time a dolphin is hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Wars of Assassination | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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