Word: henchman
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...said, New Orleans' notorious Abraham L. (Abe) Shushan, ex-convict and onetime Huey Long henchman, agreed to write off a $3,000 loan to Bilbo in return for an assist on an $80,000 income-tax suit. In 1941, Terry recalled, Bilbo had accepted $1,500 to get an aged Natchez drug addict a special morphine prescription from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...
From their monastic quarters near the main temple, the priests dragged the abbot of Paiyunkuan, An Shih-lin, and his favorite priest, Pai Chin-yi. In the flickering light of oil lamps, a bitter trial began. The priestly jury found the abbot and his henchman guilty of illegal relations with women (kept in a house beyond the temple walls); of squandering temple funds (to buy heroin); and of starving two Chinese because they refused to collaborate with the Japs...
...fast enough to catch up with its good thriller beginning. A broke and hungry ex-G.I. (Robert Cummings) finds a bill-heavy pocketbook on a Miami sidewalk and returns the lost property to its gangster owner (Steve Cochran). Highly amused by such "stupid" honesty, the gangster and his henchman (Peter Lorre) give Cummings a job as chauffeur...
Minister of the Interior Victor Román y Reyes had passed the word to innumerable Somoza relatives in important Government posts, and the tight machine that combined local military and civil governorships in one henchman's hands executed the dictator's orders as smoothly as ever. It was still Somozaland...
...planned a memorial service that promised to be "the biggest thing the tekiyas have ever seen." Then, her face still puffy from mourning, she sat easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with a red carnation in his lapel, sat approvingly by her side, Mrs. Matsuda proclaimed: "I intend to carry out my husband's ideas though it may entail considerable danger to my person and some resistance from among my henchmen...