Word: henchmen
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...nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini and Lamotta, and he marries into a thriving Sicilian clan. Gradually, all the standard gangland props are assembled: henchmen, reprisals, shootouts at the warehouse, payoffs and protection rackets. The author even seems to have anticipated the recent caveats of the Italian-American Civil Rights League: the world Mafia is missing. Indeed, when his wife dies, leaving only two daughters, Oliver "adopts" a handsome young Cajun named Robert Caillet, cuts...
...they were ordered to murder one of their own gang. They obeyed their instructions, but afterward they thought it over. If Profaci could eliminate one of them, what about the rest? The Gallos committed the unthinkable: they rebelled against their Mafia boss. Not only that, they kidnaped five Profaci henchmen, holding them captive until the boss agreed to give them a bigger piece of the action. The solemn agreement lasted until the hostages were released. Then a fierce three-year gang war broke out. Before it was over, nine mobsters had been killed. 15 were wounded and three disappeared...
...could think of nothing specific, and 14% insisted that the U.S. has done no good at all. When the same group was asked what were the worst things Americans had done, 78% cited the corruption of Vietnamese youth, women, customs and traditions, the use of Vietnamese officials as "henchmen," the undermining of the country's politics and economy, and the disregard of its national sovereignty, dignity, life and property. The remaining 22% had "no opinion." Perhaps the most savage view of the U.S. impact recently appeared in the opposition newspaper Hoa Binh, which printed a cartoon showing Lyndon Johnson...
...Cambodia in six weeks. But the American undercover armies and America's South Vietnamese and Cambodian puppets kept up their effort to "pacify" the Cambodian people. The war rageson. And on the home front, the war of rhetoric against leftists continued. Now Nixon is dispatching a thousand FBI henchmen to the campuses, supposedly to investigate campus bombings...
...watching the human comedy unfold in the shops and tenement windows across the way. When he is not peeping, he is halfheartedly fighting off the advances of a maneater named Margaret (Billie Whitelaw) and trying to avoid the intricate political machinations of some of his father's henchmen...