Word: masterminding
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...blacks to vote, he had announced earlier that day that they could pay their poll taxes at his shop.) He shot at the attackers while his family escaped, but Dahmer died of smoke inhalation. Although four men were convicted in the case, several others escaped trial. And the purported mastermind, former Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, was freed after two mistrials...
Earl Weaver, one of baseball's legendary gurus and mastermind of the Baltimore Orioles machine in the early 1980s, subscribed to the simplest of offensive philosophies...
...news show for cbs and spend more time with their 18-month-old daughter. In his public life, he did it as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 1994 and 1996, when more than a third of all current House Republicans were elected. If Gingrich was the mastermind behind the G.O.P. revolution, Paxon, as campaign-committee chairman, was the one who carried it out. More than a few of today's Republicans owe their jobs to him. Washington State's White, for example, challenged an incumbent Democrat in '94 in a race few Republicans thought he could...
...responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day, in Fairfax, Va., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating two CIA employees in 1993. The day after that, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the "mastermind" of the World Trade Center bombing, and his driver were found guilty in a federal court in New York City...
...sense, until we track every single person who had any conceivable role," said U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White. She hasn't done too badly so far: This was the third victory for prosecutors in the World Trade Center conspiracy, and the first time Yousef has been tried as the mastermind of the bombing. The jury even saw through the plausible defense of the baby-faced driver Ismoil, who claimed he thought he was simply delivering detergents...