Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slapstick henchmen and a village policeman...
...unhappily aware that we shall be accused from some quarters of having joined forces with those distasteful spokesmen of the right who have loosely and maliciously applied the label 'communist' to many commendable organizations. We wish emphatically to dissociate ourselves from the red-baiting tactics of the henchmen of reaction, but we cannot lot their bad example dissuade us from our determination to make known our stand...
...unholy alliance between big business and its political henchmen in Congress has finally achieved the purpose in the complete destruction of effective control of the cost of living," the Board statement said. "Under these circumstances we have but one clear course--to demand a wage increase that will provide the workers and their families with a decent standard of living...
...horror story of Mexican beisbol. Mickey recalled the first time he saw Mexico City's Nuevo Laredo Park. At first he wondered why it looked so familiar; then he realized he had seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell his yarn, Mexican beisbol was fearsome: he said darkly that "they" opened...
BOSTON--Bullet Bobby Feller and a pair of efficient henchmen, Hal Newhouser and Spud Chandler, were the big three moundsmen who made the Amer- ican Leaguers 3 to 1 favorites for tomorrow's major league All-Star battle at Fenway Park...