Word: slaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plotters' only plan, apparently, was to slay the President. Said Bourguiba: "After my death the country would have been in a state of total anarchy. The plotters thought only of eliminating me, not replacing...
Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson, 46, was out to slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. The plan was simple: campaign energetically around the state, irk the old gentleman, let him lose his temper, and then shrug it all off as though it were pitiful proof of senility. The Nelson strategy worked...
...much to grip the imagination in the somewhat dimly drawn characters of Mara, a young village girl, and Bebo, a ig-year-old Communist and former resistance fighter. Bebo left the partisans with a big pistol in his pocket and a boy's pathetic notion that he could slay dragons with it. He swaggers about, beats up a Fascist priest, and finally shoots the young son of a militia sergeant. Bebo thinks himself a hero; he knows simply that his victim was a nonCommunist, therefore an enemy. Mara is indifferent; she does not really care much for Bebo...
Luckily, Spontaneity does not slay the dragon; it negotiates, largely from fear, and compromises. Murray, to keep the social worker and his delightful nephew, appeases Madison Avenue (evil) by returning to his job. And they all live happily ever after...
...valor" chosen to lead his people to victory. The comic incongruity of the choice is heightened by Gideon's initial appearance as a kind of donkeyfied village dolt. The Angel, who is, in effect, the Lord, lays down a plan by which 300 Israelites will rout and slay 120,000 Midianites...