Word: vendettas
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Both the right and the left seem to be embracing random terror and Mafia-style vendetta. Recently, the mother, father and sister of a youth named Federico Guillermo Baez were abducted from their home in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, then later found dead. Their hands were cut off to delay identification. The next day the police announced that young Baez was the leader of a guerrilla squad that had killed an army colonel. The clear implication: right-wing forces had decided to avenge the officer's death by wiping out Baez's family...
...most recent Harris Poll, 60% of the population has expressed the opinion that there must have been a conspiracy to murder the civil rights leader. Prompted by the revelation that the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had conducted a vicious vendetta to discredit King, the Justice Department is probing both the FBI's harassment of him and its investigation of his death...
...Connivance. When Britain's U.N. ambassador Ivor Richard ridiculed Moynihan as a shoot-from-the-hip Wyatt Earp (TIME, Dec. 1), some Moynihan supporters heard Kissinger's voice behind it. New York Times Columnist William Safire (who has been conducting a long vendetta-against Kissinger) speculated that Kissinger had planted the idea with Britain's Foreign Secretary James Callaghan during last month's economic summit talks in Rambouillet, France. Though the British later told Moynihan that Richard's views were "official" - endorsed by his government in London - participants in the Rambouillet talks deny any connivance...
Cousy only mentions his playing career briefly. He talks about the pressure that he put on himself to win, how he saw each game as a personal vendetta against the opposing player, and how one championship with the Celts only increased the hunger for another one. He tells us what the killer instinct means--once you have an opponent by the throat you don't let him up, but keep him down. It's reminiscent of Bobby Fisher's comment that the enjoyment he derived from chess was not only winning, but crushing his opponent's ego as well...
...intensity that drew his lips back from his teeth in a crooked smile, an anticipation that strummed the sinews in his neck and whitened his knuckles." To Quint the fish is real because he feels some kind of bestial identification with it, as though he has to satisfy some vendetta that dates back to wild ancestors...