Word: daggered
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...remote mountain valleys north of the capital city of San'a, the royalists encircled and began starving out two Egyptian garrisons of more than 1,000 men. Another group of dagger-wielding backers of the Imam clambered up rocky hills at dawn to catch Egyptian Brigadier Abdel Moneim Sinat and 200 of his paratroopers by surprise; they brought back Sinat's severed head as a trophy...
Dressed in the same clothes, and wearing a bandolier of bullets across his chest, Badr told of his escape to a group of 16 newsmen who huddled on mats in a camel-skin tent at an encampment a few miles inside Yemen near the Saudi Arabian border. While dagger-wielding, shouting followers raised a din outside, Badr cheerfully predicted that he would be back on the throne in a few weeks. He claimed to command 20,000 tribesmen...
...rare books and manuscripts. He can also afford to leave his practice now and then for spells of public service as an operator in international dark corners-a specialty that traces back to his wartime service as legal counsel to "Wild Bill" Donovan (no kin), head of the cloakand-dagger Office of Strategic Services. After the war, Donovan served on the U.S. legal staff at the war-criminal trials in Nurnberg, later helped draft the legislation setting up the Central Intelligence Agency...
Buying the name brands of soft goods is still hard for Korvette's because manufacturers who openly deal with discounters are often blackballed by conventional retailers. To get high-fashion goods, Ferkauf and Schwadron sometimes have to go through cloak-and-dagger maneuvers that the CIA might study with profit. Korvette's Fifth Avenue recently scored something of a coup by offering its customers Pringle of Scotland fur-trimmed cashmere cardigans for as little as $25.90 each, despite the fact that Pringle tries to hold the price to more than twice as much by refusing to sell...
...fanatically secretive protege of Founder Stein. Wasserman always dresses in black, and sees that his underlings do too. He is always accompanied by an aide who memorizes conversations so there will be a record of them in the event of Wasserman's death; in the best cloak-and-dagger style, MCA rarely keeps memos on any transaction...