Word: vendettas
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Duvall is a professional criminal, already at odds with the straight world. Now he must also stand against the criminal world as he wages a bloody vendetta against the Mob that had his brother killed. He gets to them by busting up some of their more successful undertakings (a casino, a bookie parlor) and turning the profits over to his sister-in-law. He himself waits for a clear shot at Mr. Big, a long and weary wait...
Hoffa seems to regard the whole unpleasantness of prison life as a personal affront, as an attack on his ego. He considers his conviction on jury-tampering and mail fraud charges the result of a vendetta. Firstly, "I say I am not guilty of the crimes I was charged with, but they used a vehicle of public relations to deny me a fair trial," Hoffa says. He believes Robert Kennedy was out to get him, and his ultimate conviction was the result of the government's single-minded desire to see him put away. And Hoffa is not entirely self...
...attending a meeting with Vesco on March 8, 1972, in Stans' Washington office. According to Richardson, Vesco told Stans that he wanted to make a donation to the Nixon campaign but that he had a problem -the SEC investigation. Vesco claimed that the probe was really an SEC vendetta against him and his company...
...Arrigo, one of the principal revolutionaries, discovers to his horror that he is the illegitimate son of the chief oppressor, Montforte. Not only does this news test his divided loyalties, but it ruins his romance with the fair Elena, who is sympathetic to the Sicilians. With loud cries of "Vendetta!" the Sicilians overthrow Montforte at the final curtain...
...fact, Nixon's new game plan of an all-out fight against impeachment, coupled with White House efforts to depict the House process as a political vendetta rather than a judicial inquiry, is doubtless aimed at the vote of the House on the committee's finding. The President knows that the members of the House are caught on the horns of a cruel dilemma, indeed several dilemmas. They have been sent back to Washington with contradictory messages from the folks at home. Most Americans think that the President is guilty of one charge or another in the Watergate...