Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somewhat later Touré told a plausible story of murderous rivalries within Cabral's independence movement. The mastermind of the plot, said Touré, was Inocentio Camil, a top aide in Cabral's African Party for the Independence of (Portuguese) Guinea and Cape Verde (islands), known by its initials in Portuguese as PAIGC. As the Guinean leader told it, the assassins, after killing Cabral, kidnaped several other party members, tortured them, marched them aboard a fishing boat belonging to the PAIGC "navy," and sailed out of Conakry harbor bound for Bissau, the capital of Portuguese Guinea. Tour...
...such quarterbacks as John McCloskey, who happily, but somewhat prematurely, spiked the ball on the Columbia two-yard line on his way to (what would have been) a touchdown, and Eric Crone, of endzone infamy, but the Crimson has had few, if any, quarterbacks known for their ability to mastermind a last second drive -- with the exception, of course, of 1968 Yale game hero Frank "42 seconds" Champi, a second string quarterback who had never done it before and never did it again...
...according to Malin, Clairborne Pell, the mastermind of the Senate version of the Education Bill had not realized the legislation would cut back on funds to students at low-cost institutions...
Charles F. Freeman, chief U.S. Interpreter during the Peking talks between President Nixon and Chou-en-Lai, said last night. "I watched the Chief Imperialist of the world toast the murderous mastermind of the Maoist bandits...
...imprisonment is the protection of law-abiding citizens and numberless future victims. It follows that as long as a life sentence means only a few years in jail before parole, as long as prisons are not secure and convicts can escape from them or continue from there to mastermind killings, as long as prisons do not rehabilitate, the death penalty should not be abolished. However, such a penalty should be used very sparingly and only in clear-cut cases of mass killings committed by true psychopaths, since such criminals are very unlikely ever to be rehabilitated...