Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Counting the Votes. Nosing about, Editor Wirges found that the same Democratic administration had been in power for more than ten years, and its officers-who generally ran unopposed-had grown so secure that the county's appointive ranks were filled with their henchmen...
...bank simply could not handle the demand for cash. As for his family's overdrawn accounts, Don Manuel explained that was simply his way of taking profits. But he had no explanation for the fact that most of the other overdrafts were in the accounts of his political henchmen. And he pleaded the Fifth Amendment when asked about the missing county funds...
...Marti Airport would not accommodate the huge jetliner, offered instead to substitute a smaller DC-7 already en route to El Paso for the flight. By this time, the El Paso drama had become an affair of state; if, as was automatically assumed, the hijackers were indeed Castro henchmen, drastic U.S. steps might have been required. In Washington, President Kennedy was kept informed about the situation. He gave a flat no to the proposed exchange of planes, ordered that any other action be left to the discretion of the lawmen on the scene. Through the long hours, the embattled hijackers...
...feuding Cuban factions together ended abruptly in 1958, when Batista suspended all civil rights to cope with the rebellion of Fidel Castro. An organization of Miró's friends, largely conservative businessmen and professional men, denounced the Batista regime for "supporting itself by force." The dictator sent some henchmen to arrest Miró. As they were searching his office, he was making his escape to the Argentine embassy, disguised as a priest...
Angelo is indeed an artful fellow, but he does not emerge as quite human. Decidedly amoral when the plot demands, he can kill one of his henchmen with hardly an ethical shrug. Yet Hallberstam takes him too far to the other extreme. Certainly Iago never worried about his son, as Angelo does: "He was trying to build confidence with the boy. It was a hard thing to do because he had to combine family with business...