Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, had little chance to lay his hand on England's future-but that little was enough to judge him. To secure insurrectionist Northumbria be fore the Norman invasion, Harold ventured north-the first English king in years to do so-protected only by a royal bodyguard and armed only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive resistance- "a campaign without booty, to hinder battle, and to discourage the enemy from war." William, on the other hand, came as liberator and earned the name of Conqueror...
Died. Sepp Dietrich, 73, prewar head of Hitler's SS bodyguard and general in command of the Sixth Panzer Army at the Battle of the Bulge, who on Dec. 17, 1944, ordered the massacre of 86 U.S. prisoners in Malmédy, Belgium; of a heart attack; near Stuttgart...
...Field, who was also serving as California's U.S. circuit judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After his release, he attacked Field on a California train and was about to draw his bowie knife when Field's bodyguard shot and killed him. Field went on to serve the longest term in Supreme Court history (34 years, nine months). Sarah spent the next 45 years in an insane asylum...
...Tape. Peter was so "downfallen, so sick in the stomach that I never left my house." His Liverpool fans, feeling equally ill, loyally marched along the Mersey, carrying banners proclaiming "Peter Forever, Ringo Never." Even with a bodyguard, Beatle George Harrison got his eye blackened. It was three weeks before Best felt up to leaving the house, but, unlike his fans, he bore no personal rancor. "I saw John and George in Liverpool a couple of minutes," he notes. "We're still the best of friends. I asked them, 'How's your mother...
Died. Harry Blackstone, 80, U.S. magician, a master illusionist who described magic as "nothing but psychology," brought new excitement to the old now-you-see-it-now-you-don't school when, performing at the White House in 1926, he pickpocketed a revolver from Calvin Coolidge's bodyguard, and became one of the giants in the field with his own line of spectacular tricks, featuring a donkey vanishing onstage and a rope climber disappearing in a cloud of smoke; of uremia; in Hollywood...