Word: lackeys
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...wring phony confessions from them, using savage threats of force, and then doctoring their words for use in North Vietnamese propaganda. It would be a great understatement to say that many of the POWs retained a very lively disgust for this man, whom they thought a shameless lackey for a tyrannic regime...
...rule" of the cops. The force is also under a cloud because of a federal investigation of alleged payoffs from narcotics operators to some of its high-ranking officers. Some of the police still regard the mayor as a cop hater and Police Chief Philip Tannian as an inept lackey. But they have enforced the curfew and regained control of the streets-at least temporarily...
...sports-loving King (golf, sailing, karate) was criticized for his seeming lethargy during the first three months of his reign, when he seldom ventured far from his modest, mauve stucco Zarzuela palace near Madrid. "What can the man do?" shrugged a Communist leader. "He is the lackey of the system." Replied a high government official: "Patience. Patience. The post-Franco era has barely begun." Then, after ugly rioting in industrial Barcelona, the capital of Catalonian separatism, the palace announced that the royal couple would make a number of tours to the disparate regions?starting with Catalonia...
...protestors, who were primarily black, interrupted Shockley as he spoke to a History of Science meeting of about 20 graduate students and teachers, and they chanted, "Shockley is a lackey of the ruling class...
...CAMPAIGN has been extremely heated throughout, with each candidate charging the other with being a tool of out-of-state interests, Durkin calling Wyman a lackey of the big corporations, and Wyman accusing Durkin of serving "big labor," pointing to the AFL-CIO's $70,000 contribution to the Durkin campaign. Probably neither side scored any points with these too often repeated charges; nor is it likely that William Loeb and his Joe McCarthyite Manchester Union Leader will have a significant effect on the outcome. The Union Leader has however been making an all out effort to defame and misrepresent...