Word: hatchetmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic magistrate-detectives of Chinese literature. Supplying Occidental motives but preserving the delicate puzzle plots of the 7th century Tang dynasty, he pitted his wise and wily Dee against tyrants, palace power-seekers and assorted hatchetmen in 17 thrillers...
...withdrew from politics. A machine gun insignia marks those who fought in the Resistance. Any kind of affiliation with De Gaulle, past or present, qualifies a man for the Directory. Thus Raymond Aron, now an opponent of De Gaulle, is listed along with heir-apparent Michele Debre and obscure hatchetmen like Jean-Baptiste Biaggi. "Minister of the word" Andre Malraux ("an elderly uncle whose whims are tolerated with amused indulgence") appears along with plotters, soldiers, relatives and arch-traitor Jacques Soustelle...
...seven, members of the Citizens Emergency Committee to save Memorial Drive in Cambridge, plan to alarm the townspeople if MDC hatchetmen attempt to cut down the trees...
...Chinese archfiend with black contact lenses and artificial hands who won his spurs in the Shanghai tong wars, and as a charter member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terror, Revenge and Extortion) he is almost a match for James Bond. His island off Jamaica is well appointed with hatchetmen, a nuclear reactor and Goya's missing portrait of the Duke of Wellington. As agent 007, one of three with the double cipher indicating authority to kill, James Bond is a combination of Sam Spade, Baby Pignatari and Jungle Jim. Sporting with him in Jamaica are the faithful native...
...President, to condone such an arrangement? Said Nixon: "I have made mistakes, but I am an honest man." Then he quickly cast Brown as the heavy, charged that though Kennedy in 1960 had refused to "make a political issue out of my brother's difficulties." Brown and his "hatchetmen" were conducting a whispering campaign about it. Now. challenged Nixon. "Governor Brown has a chance to stand up as a man and charge me with misconduct. Do it. sir." Caught off guard. Brown retreated in haste, virtually apologized to his opponent and assured him that any talk of the Hughes...