Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in its eleven years, the N.M.U.'s leadership was free of Communist-line henchmen...
...thereby crippling all city services from garbage collection to law enforcement. Just to make sure of his grip on New Orleans' police and fire departments, Earl planned to dominate them through an eleven-man board consisting of the mayor, his commissioner of public safety and nine Long henchmen...
...convention delegates were loyal to their liege lord. But last week Bob Taft found himself with his back to his own portcullis, fighting for his political life. Minnesota's Harold Stassen had somehow managed to get across the moat and was threatening to kidnap the faithful henchmen...
...they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their purpose is clear. You want desperately to call for help, but you know it's no use. The house is empty, the yards and streets are deserted, and the entire city around...
...Telephone Rang. Last October, Michael's mother, Queen Helen, was summarily commanded to vacate her Banloc villa. Rumania's blowzy, blow-torchy Communist boss and Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, her ruddiest henchmen and Yugoslavia's Tito needed a meeting place. Tito arrived in a private train protected by 1,500 crack troops and a food-taster. The servants in the villa were locked up to insure privacy, and for four days (while Rumania's top Communists rustled their own food and made their own beds) the policymakers discussed Queen Helen's son Michael...