Word: vendettas
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...issues, he must be wary of Daley. The mayor is often at odds with Walker but is hardly a fan of Thompson's. The candidate was careful to point out as he made his announcement that he saw no reason for the mayor to conduct "a vendetta against me," adding that as a prosecutor he had never uttered "a single word of personal animus" against Daley...
...will hold power after the vast West African territory becomes independent of Portugal on Nov. 11. In three weeks of violence, mainly in the capital city of Luanda, at least 500 people, mostly blacks, have been killed and thousands of others wounded. The casualties resulted from a murderous vendetta among the liberation groups that fought a 13-year guerrilla war against the Portuguese...
...Vellucci has insulted his fellow councilmen by lowering the council to the forum of a petty, personal vendetta. He has insulted the reading public be implying that his actions are newsworthy enough to deserve their attention, and he has insulted his electorate--the public who thought they were voting for a man who would work for their interests rather than his pride...
...bloody feuds for a dozen years. There have been at least 20 deaths and more than 100 injuries as factions have competed to control the local drug traffic. Father William Frigo, associate pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in the barrio, said recently, "Many of our vendetta families have no sons left." In the past fortnight he has organized special Masses dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is revered by Mexicans as their protectress. The prayer services for civil peace have attracted overflow crowds, for the time being, the violence has stopped...
...validity of the historical flashbacks derives largely from what they say, by inference, about Michael. The old man, encountering in New York's Little Italy the very same pattern of extortion and vendetta that he escaped in Sicily, began by doing his own killing and taking his own risks. He did so not on the basis of cold calculation but hot-blooded need. One does not exactly admire him, but one at least finds him explicable, entirely human. Michael...