Word: saboteurs
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...offer incense to the death of the Katayama cabinet," said one soused saboteur, as another slow-motion voting session started that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...
...like to read about unsuccessful folks whose lives ain't cluttered up." For eleven years the Journal has been tucking away Chet Shafer's daily two or three inches of bucolic "Three Rivers Doings" at the end of its editorials. One week in 1938 an editorial saboteur left it out. Hundreds of businessmen, from Detroit to Omaha, promptly wired, phoned and wrote angry protests. "Three Rivers Doings" has been running ever since...
Down the Drain. There were further experiences of this kind, more run-ins with the "power-drunk sadists" of the NKVD. One day Gershgorn "sprang up in sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water...
...Allied saboteur in danger of capture by the enemy swallowed hard, it was not necessarily fear-he was probably destroying the evidence. Maps on tissue-thin paper, which could be eaten if need be, were among the curiosa of World War II, publicly shown for the first time in New York last week...
Departamento 50 also revealed a dream of the chief saboteur that never came off: to destroy the Panama Canal by exploding a Chilean ship in one of the locks...