Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Easiest Thing." Thereafter, one of the sights of Mexico was the lusty old brigand and two or three of his henchmen driving daily in his 1920 Overland touring car from Parral to the ranch. One day in 1923, General Motors Dealer Gabriel Chavez and some friends were standing before the agency show window as Pancho rattled past. The men scowled. Some had lost brothers killed by Villa, others remembered womenfolk carried away. Chavez said: "I wonder if anybody will dare let him have...
...Arias. A general strike broke out. That night the National Assembly impeached Arias and swore in Vice President Alcibíades Arose. mena as President. Chichi sent Arias an ultimatum: get out or be booted out. Arnulfo holed up in the presidential palace with his henchmen. Police ringed the palace and began peppering the windows. After a four-hour battle, Arias gave up. As he left the palace under guard, he lifted his hand in a defiant salute...
...Making Giuliano's end oddly similar to that of U.S. Bandit Jesse James, who was murdered in his St. Joseph, Mo. home in 1882 by his henchmen the Ford brothers, Bob and Charlie, who had joined forces with the police partly in grudge against Jesse, partly to gain a pardon for another bandit, Dick Liddil...
Stalin . . . and all his international henchmen fanatically believe that "the capitalist system as a whole is already ripe for revolution." They fanatically believe, as Lenin proved, that "the importance of war as a midwife of Revolution can scarcely be exaggerated...
...father's position as an independent critic of both the Nationalists and the Communists. After Red troops finally took Shanghai in 1949, the Review hailed the city's "liberation," lavishly praised "the new democracy," and began demanding Formosa's "liberation" from Chiang Kai-shek's "henchmen." The Review's version of life in the U.S. became a red-and-pink patchwork quilt, sewn together from such dependably left-wing sources as the speeches of Howard Fast and George Seldes' news letter In Fact. Wrote the Review: "The United States, in the eyes...