Word: goon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter Sellers, I'd be penniless. Write any character you have in mind and I'll shape myself to what you have written. But don't write a part for me." Sellers won his early popularity doing impersonations on the radio. He soon formed the celebrated Goon Show with two others and proved that even the BBC had room for the humor of the imagination gone mad. For example, the three climbed Mount Everest from the inside...
...months since the last of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's family departed, thousands of Dominicans previously silenced by terror have come forward to describe the crimes of the dead dictator's secret police, his army and personal goon squads. Last week Dominican Attorney General Eduardo Antonio Garcia Vasquez, who investigated the stories, reported a preliminary toll: known murders plus those missing and presumed dead come to 5,700 in the past five years. The total for the Trujillo regime's full 31 years may run to the tens of thousands...
...ends them without warning, on a grunt and a click. Brazen and tough, he has been arrested 19 times since 1950, convicted twice (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), spent a total of three years in prison. His underworld connections are notorious: he worked as a head-knocking labor goon for St. Louis Hoodlum John Vitale, and his boxing career was supervised by stooges of Ganglord Frankie Carbo...
...Daniel Schreiber, 51, who showed that demoralized, bored Manhattan slum pupils eagerly looked toward higher educational horizons when and if they got the chance (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Said Schreiber, who now leaves his job as head of New York's "Higher Horizons" program: "These are the future goon squads for any subversive willing to pay them...
Five weeks ago, the pro-Lumumba troops and goon squads in Kivu went on a drunken rampage, seeking revenge for Lumumba's death. One 75-year-old nun was thrown from a truck, and while she lay in the dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ...