Word: stoolpigeon
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...Irish M.P.s were hauled from their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...directed half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone to lure in other staffmen, slashed one guard who resisted, locked up five stoolpigeon convicts, whipped up some 30 other inmates (total: 435) and armed them with knives and meat axes. At nightfall the warden talked one convict into helping him escape, quickly called for an attack by National Guardsmen...
...Batista's fall reverberated in far-off Paraguay. The official radio, broadcasting from the Interior Ministry, urged Strongman Alfredo Stroessner to proceed with "preventive executions to avoid a blood bath like Cuba's in Paraguay." One night last week, heavily armed police, tipped off by a stoolpigeon network organized by the fugitive Yugoslav war criminal, Ante Pavelic,* charged into Asuncion's southern district. There they seized two boys who, with chunks of clay, were scrawling on house walls an appeal to free political prisoners. Cops sealed off ten blocks of cobblestoned streets, raided houses and dragged...
...Barbara Hartle, stoolpigeon," responded the Northwest's Daily People's World, ". . . has destroyed herself forever . . . has joined the ranks of the atom maniacs, the Hitlerites, the persecutors and inquisitors of every honest and Democratic element in American life...
Zack: "Look in the mirror, you goddam leech. You work for Stalin. You stoolpigeon...