Word: henchman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world where intelligence matters, but not the knowledge of academic study: a world where the gang's driver Mickey finds his creative outlet "all in his meaty hands," where the perfectionist henchman Irving displays his careful and precise competence in dirty dealings and where mathematical whiz Abbadabba Berman converts life into numbers...
...taking office, he could return for the Christmas holidays and permanently after his country's 1989 presidential elections. Another sweetener was an offer of $90 million in American aid. Although Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman, Colonel Marcos Justines, would continue to head the PDF. Most important, the drug charges would be dropped -- a proposition that drove even the relentlessly loyal Bush to his first public break with a Reagan policy. In the end, Noriega rejected the entire deal, and the U.S. was left to issue vague...
Sweeney hopes to exact his revenge on Turpin and his henchman, Beadle Bamford (Wayne Johnson), by luring them to his barber chair, then slitting their throats. In fact, he decides to kill everyone, rich or poor, who sits in his chair--the rich because they are evil and the poor because they are miserable. Mrs. Lovett thinks this is a fine plan, since the pie business has been slow, and meat is scarce... Karl Marx, meet the Leatherface family...
...When the University needed a henchman to carry out its dirty work, they couldn't have picked a better person...
...political and diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death at age 96, the loyal lieutenant and unquestioning henchman of Joseph Stalin had managed to hold out long enough to enjoy a bittersweet official rehabilitation in 1984 as one of the last survivors of the band of revolutionaries who created the world's first Communist state...