Word: assassinated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ring of the telephone resounds through U.S. literature, theater, movies. It evokes laughs (Bells Are Ringing) from the plight of an answering-service operator who falls in love with a client, horror (Dial "M" for Murder) from a homicidal husband's attempt to lure his wife into an assassin's hands with a telephone ring, frustration (Menotti's The Telephone) from the dilemma of a lover whose girl constantly interrupts his proposal to answer the phone-until he rushes to a phone booth to propose...
...fortunes. The locale should be evocative: cafes on the Champs-Elysees, sun-drenched days at Cap d'Antibes, intrigue and attempted murder on the war-ravaged reaches of the North African coast. For such a true story, involving those standbys of fiction, the goodhearted prostitute and a hired assassin who feels compassion for his victim, and for a developing scandale that gives promise of shaking French society as did the Stavisky case in 1934, see FOREIGN NEWS, L'Affaire Lacaze...
...Announcement!" shouted Rebel Major Humberto Sori Marin from the concrete arena of the Havana Sports Palace. "This man is being tried for murder and robbery." The crowd of 15,000 roared its approval. "And he is an assassin," added Sori Marin, chief of the three-man panel charged with deciding guilt or innocence. "You know what the sentiments of Fidel Castro are about this trial," he said, and thoughtfully told the spectators: "Do not throw pop bottles...
...lives, to which have been added puns, pomposities, and speeches from Shakespeare's plays. In an atmosphere of swig-and-spout, Old Junius and Young Ned part company in California; Ned, amid rehearsals, finds romance with Mary Devlin; John Wilkes Booth shouts his Latin and is the assassin of a President; at the Players Club he founded, Edwin dies while thunder rolls...
...hospital in Beirut, to give birth to her fifth child. Hearing the honking ministerial caravan and the siren of its motorcycle escort, Esrouer excitedly decided to pass the disabled Ford before pulling over to let the motorcade pass him. On the hilltop the confused assassin reached for the plunger a trifle too soon...