Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheels Turn. The Boss and Corporation Counsel Hodes came back, and sweating Ed Kelly, chronic assassin of the King's English, began to speak. No one, he said, had ever before voluntarily resigned as chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee, They either died, or got tossed out on their ear, he said. He wound up: "I hereby render-uh-tender my resignation." The boys clapped, there were murmurs of "Aw, Boss...
...walking along a lonely lane to his home in San Martino, suburb of Correggio (where the painter of that name was born). There was a bright orange flash among the yellow fireflies. Don Umberto fell, shot through the neck. He managed to crawl to his doorstep, where the assassin crushed in his skull...
...Einstein took the entrance examinations for the Polytechnicum in Zurich, Switzerland. He failed, but got in a year later. At Zurich he completed his formal scientific education, became fast friends with the Austrian Socialist leader, political assassin and physicist, Friedrich Adler...
...high time," he trumpeted, "that Congress has the facts. If war is declared on me I propose to wage it with the weapons of an open warrior, not those of a stealthy assassin...
...According to Ptolomaeus Lucemsis, a medieval chronicler, Eleanor of Castile, wife of England's Edward I, gave the first aid after an assassin's attack at Acre...