Word: henchman
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...officers who had petitioned for a return to constitutionality (and had consequently been "retired"), a Perón henchman had given the official line: "God has elected one man to save the Republic. This man has already saved the Republic several times and will also be the savior of Latin America. This man, elected by God, is Juan Domingo...
...father did not die by accident. He further suspects that the man (Warren William) who is about to marry his mother (Sally Eilers) was the murderer. Helped by his sweetheart (Mary McLeod) and an older friend (Regis Toomey), and dangerously hindered by the suitor and his crooked psychoanalyst henchman (Charles Arnt), the youth turns his dreams into capital evidence. The picture is not strong on suspense, but as straight drama much of it is alive, simple and likable, because everyone concerned is engaged not only in telling the story but also in the relationships and emotions of the characters...
...Spaniards and Frenchmen set foot in the New World they bestowed their most resounding titles on their settle ments and, like the Indians, kept the simpler, descriptive names for streams, woods and hillocks. But to their plain, pioneering successors, both these sorts of names were fancy nuisances. When a henchman of King Philip of Spain sonorously created La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco (The Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis), he had hardly turned his back before it was ruthlessly hacked down to what it is today: Santa...
Fontenoy, Waterloo and Dunkirk. The Coldstream Guards were organized by Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped...
Back from John Touhy's, led by a flying wedge of cops, came Illinois. Breathing heavily, Ed Kelly grabbed the microphone, shouted out: "Illinois now 54 for Truman, four for Wallace." He turned to a henchman: "Did we make it?" He had not. It was all over. Running fast for the Truman bandwagon, Ed Kelly had only managed to get his fingernails on the spare tire...