Word: thugging
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...fuming with impotent rage as an evil-mannered thug criticizes our carefully polished Army boots during drill...
Later there was the case of assault-the day the priest, armed with a hammer, chased a quack healer out of town. And a case of battery-the day Zamorano beat up a knife-brandishing thug. Worst of all, there was a political scandal...
...night last week, doctors and friends broke the news to the New York Daily Mirror's Labor Columnist Victor Riesel: he was blind. "He took it beautifully," said a friend. Next day, exactly a month after a young thug flung sulphuric acid into Riesel's face on a Manhattan sidewalk (TIME, April 16), the doctors' bulletin announced: "The cumulative degenerative processes, stemming from the deep and severe acid burns in Mr. Riesel's eyes, proved impossible to overcome...
...weeks ago a thug hurled acid into the face of labor columnist Victor Riesel. The attack came only hours after Riesel's radio attack both of those racketeers who are attempting to gain control of labor unions, and of William DeKoning's domination of the Operating Engineers Union. The incident was described by the U.S. Attorney investigating racketeering in New York industry as "a black effort to intimidate witnesses." Governor Harriman decried the attempt to limit "freedom of speech," and Mayor Wagner called it "shame." The Operating Engineers Union agreed and added another thousand dollars to the growing reward...
...bland smile had been a watchful eye, appraising his audience well, and judging what should and should not be done during Khrushchev's and Bulganin's visit a fortnight hence. He had seen the unanimous press attack on Secret Police Chief Ivan Serov, denouncing Serov as a "thug," "butcher" and "murderer" when Serov flew in last month to check security arrangements for K. & B. And though Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik had said repeatedly that Serov would nonetheless accompany K. & B., Moscow last week discreetly dropped the head terrorist from the list of top Communists coming to Britain...