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Word: tresca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...right thumb in the Spanish Civil War, was a longtime hatchet man for Stalin's secret police. In Mexico in 1940 he had a hand in the organizational work behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and, later, in the New York shooting of exiled Italian anti-Communist Carlo Tresca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Don't Shake Our Trees | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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