Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party's feelings, discontent is deepest among hard-core Tories. By his brusque, humiliating dismissals of leading ministers, Mac the Knife violated the most sacred tenet of Toryism: party loyalty.* Said one former government minister last week: "The Tory Party is a peculiar, organic thing of which you're either wholly a part or else never really of it. Even a Tory leader may not really be of it-he can use and be used by the party for so long as he's required, and then he becomes expendable. That's what happened with Churchill...
...broody loner. Each night he smudges up his face and like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual: the bent-over Endore circles round and round the enemy corpse in a silent, semihysterical Indian war dance...
...wounded bird and throws it at Loomis in an unconscious mimicking of his killer idol, Loomis sadly senses that he is losing the battle to turn the boy into a humane being. When the cease-fire comes, Endore goes hopelessly psychopathic and heads for the hills with his knife, and Charlie. This jeopardizes the cease-fire agreement, and some of Endore's platoon mates volunteer to bring him back. When they track him down, he adamantly refuses to return. "Come back," coaxes the C.O., "the war is over." And Endore, speaking from the depths of his profoundly disturbed personality...
...Macleod started his campaign machine rolling with a 1,000-word letter to constituencies, warning that the party has no room for workers without "the zest that must be an essential part of our appeal." And in a closed meeting with Tory backbenchers, the Prime Minister zestfully echoed another knife-wielding Mac known for his ruthless ambition. Defending the suddenness of his massacre, Macmillan said with Macbeth: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly...
...Cabinet team for new faces. Harold Macmillan last week again proved that he can be both flappable and ruthless. In a move that shook Britain, he summarily fired seven members of his 21-man Cabinet and reshuffled twice as many portfolios. Inevitably, the press called him "Mac the Knife...