Word: daggered
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...Guinea's vast rivers. Hacked from the necks of enemies or retrieved from the graves of ancestors, the skulls were a central part of tribal culture. No youth could call himself a man until he had defeated an enemy warrior in battle, beheaded the corpse with a cassowary-bone dagger, and displayed the head on his clan's wooden slit drum. And few family houses were complete without the skull of an ancestor, decorated with clay features, shell eyes and real hair to create a lifelike image of the deceased...
...course not,? he replies angrily. ?Sabbah never killed innocents. And his men only used a dagger, never poisons or easy ways of killing. They studied their victims, spent years getting close to them before they struck...
...despite all the cloak-and-dagger, it was impossible to keep the secret. At the appointed hour, 7 p.m. last Friday, a battalion of helicopters, chartered by enterprising reporters and photographers, hovered above the rambling $6.5 million Malibu home of Kurt Unger, a producer and friend of the bridegroom's parents. Some of the shutterbugs brought their choppers dangerously close to the ground during the ceremony. The whir of the copters' blades drowned out the vows of Rock Singer Madonna Louise Ciccone and Actor Sean Penn, the girl and boy idols of teen America. Said one guest: "No one knew...
Just six months before the 1994 Scream theft, Hill had cracked the biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes...
McCaffery’s final bucket—a dagger from the free throw line to cut the margin to 53-50—gave her 16 points on the night and 13 in the second half. The crowd, which had grown louder with every point the Crimson scored, screamed itself hoarse after the jumper. Her heroics set the stage for Cserny. Fighting for at least one more game in an already stellar career, she took over the final minutes of the second half...