Word: vengefullness
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It is all good, dirty, if not particularly original fun. Skull-faced Jack Palance comes off as one of the most improbable-looking masterminds in the annals of crime, and Van Heflin is solid as the vengeful detective who turns out to have heart. But Thiefs best value is in...
The same wisdom leads Catton to a singularly gentle conclusion about the war's finish and about those who lost. Lee might have commanded his men to melt into the hills, there to wage an endless guerrilla warfare that, in Catton's opinion, could have "ruined America forever...
The Romans, always alert to omens and portents, would never have gone through with the ceremony. A tremendous mountain storm sent vengeful bolts of lightning slashing across the slopes of Mont Blanc, and their thunderclaps shook the valleys below. The helicopter bearing Charles de Gaulle had to grope its way...
Amsel survives, takes on another name and 32 gold teeth and lives through the war. Matern also survives, much diminished in spirit by his awareness of the guilt of other Germans. He becomes a fanatically vengeful de-Nazifier, whose method is to spread his own gonorrhea among the wives of...
The South's version of Reconstruction blames everything on those vengeful Yankees who rammed their triumph down rebel throats-and implies that until then the rebels were willing to acknowledge the inevitable price of defeat. Stampp's purpose is to expose this version as a falsehood that has...