Word: slaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals permitted the prosecution wide latitude. Much testimony was based on opinion and hearsay, two or three times removed. The prosecution showed a U.S. -propaganda film, Orders from Tokyo, in which a G.I. pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of a slain Japanese soldier, while the soundtrack intoned: "Orders from Tokyo. We have discovered the secret orders to destroy Manila." In fact, no such orders were ever found, as the defense demonstrated...
Surrounded by empty money bags, Harry P. Shea, 74, retired head of a chain of dry cleansing stores, was found slain today in the fur storage vault of the company's main office in Cambridge. Chief of Detectives Patrick J. Ready said the elderly Shea was apparently ambushed inside the building, forced to open the vault which contained money and furs, and then slugged...
...aroused violent political hostility in the U.S. When a ne'er-do-well ex-Mason named William Morgan wrote an "exposure" of its secrets, then disappeared, Masonry found itself fighting for its life. It was charged that Morgan, who had indeed been kidnaped in 1826, had also been slain. His body never turned...
...guarded the "Tiger's" home dropped in for a visit. He talked with Kim Koo for about five minutes. Then he drew a .45-caliber automatic and fired six shots; four of them struck Kim Koo, who died almost instantly. Later, police reported that the lieutenant had slain Kim Koo to prevent him from using part of the Korean army "for his own purposes...
...said a requiescat of another sort last week. Just 15 years ago Tacho's Guardia had cut down his old rival, Augusto Sandino. On the night of the anniversary, somebody scuttled across the runway at Managua's Xolotlán airfield to leave a memorial to the slain revolutionist: a bunch of red carnations, straw flowers and bougainvillea. At dawn, the fat tire of a Nicaraguan air force C46 rolled over the flowers, staining the black macadam with scarlet pulp at the spot where the Guardia is said to have buried Sandino...