Word: henchmen
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...down from their lairs to ransack villages and loot the creaky buses that bounce along the region's rutted roads. There are at least 3,000 guerrillas, and the villagers on whom they prey call them San Sonnim ("Mountain Guests"). Until last week many of them were devoted henchmen of Lee-Hyun Sang, a plump, mustached Marxist...
...questioned by you or by anyone else," cried Mossadegh. Sometimes he simply pretended to fall asleep. He demanded to see a lawyer-to draw up his will. He wept in the old abundance, and once he cried, "Kill me now!" He wanted permission to see some old friends and henchmen, and when this demand was rejected, Mossy announced to the captain of the guard that he was going on a hunger strike. "I will fast to death," he vowed. Mossy dramatically refused his breakfast and his lunch. But by supper-time-to the relief of the government-he was bawling...
...grey, brooding Lebanese mountains of Akkar, the ancient Abboud family owns the good land. The Abbouds say who shall represent Akkar in the Chamber of Deputies in Beirut, and their men are duly elected. The power of the Abbouds is such, say the peasants in the villages, that their henchmen have been known to test new rifles with peasants for targets. But four years ago, Mohammed el Abboud, the chieftain's only son, dared to challenge a Lebanese as powerful as himself: Hussein el Oweini, one of the new republic's richest men and a friend...
...Charles Brandon, Richard Todd is equally adept at gathering a nosegay for the princess, writing her a sonnet, and fighting off the evil duke and his henchmen. Portly James Robertson Justice plays a younger and more forceful Henry VIII than the one Charles Laughton has made familiar to moviegoers. As Mary Tudor, elfin-faced Glynis Johns, with her wryly insinuating voice, gives a winning characterization of a conniving little royal baggage...
...Foster Dulles: "A new convulsion is under way . . . Inherent weakness is disclosed." British Foreign Under Secretary Anthony Nutting called it "the dividend of our strength." In Bonn, Adenauer's rivals saw Beria's fall giving them an edge in the coming elections. In Yugoslavia, Tito's henchmen saw it as proof "that the Kremlin was introducing Titoism into the satellites." In India, Beria's fall was seen as justifying Nehru's thesis that Peking cannot be controlled by Moscow forever...