Word: mob
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...full of vipers by hacking at them with swords • and then stabbing them with a bayonet • Licked a hallucinogenic toad • Just beat Jean-Claude Van Damme in a bar fight • Saved babies and puppies from a burning building • Joined the mob • Married a unicorn • Got stuck in a minefield • Traveled back in time. Then traveled forward in time to write this • Became a Somali pirate • Sold out the Somali pirates to authorities for a chest full of gold coins • Spent seven hours at the bank, trying to deposit gold...
...years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many eastern regions are still struggling with high unemployment and deep-rooted social problems, and residents have increasingly turned to far-right political parties like the National Democratic Party (NPD). Attacks are common there too. Two years ago, a 50-person mob yelling, "Foreigners out!" chased eight Indians through the streets of the eastern town of Mügeln before brutally attacking them in a pizzeria while townspeople looked on. Fourteen people were injured in the melee, including all eight Indians and two police officers, according to media reports. (Read "Germany Confronts...
...trade, like defusing IEDs or chairing the Fed. Such dark thoughts percolated during the 103 minutes I spent in the company of Did You Hear About the Morgans?, a comedy about a married couple on the outs (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) who, after exchanging glances with a mob hit man, are relocated in the FBI's Witness Protection Program to a Wyoming hamlet where two earth-salt older folks (Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen) teach them life lessons on why it's good to eat pork and pack a rifle. Though The Morgans offers what might seem...
...territory here. And when they run into each other, they will fight over it," he said. Among the Mexican gangs warring in Honduras are the Sinaloa Cartel of billionaire fugitive Joaquín (Shorty) Guzmán, the bloodthirsty paramilitary force known as Los Zetas and the quasi-religious mob calling itself La Familia, he said...
...movie opens with an elderly tattoo artist imprinting the image of a dragon onto a mob boss. As he hacks away at the mobster’s skin in vivid onscreen detail, a telegram arrives filled with black dust. The old man recoils in horror, explaining that the last time he saw such a letter, the mocking laughter of his employers was “drowned in blood.” Suddenly, a series of goons are inexplicably beheaded, halved, and cut limb by limb in rapid succession. No sword or swordsman is visible, only swoosh sounds and silver flickers...