Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, in a master-stroke of double irony on M. Sartre's part, the party line reverse and the murdered leader is to be declared a martyr, and the young assassin, the intellectual who would be a man-of-action, can never decide for himself whether he killed the leader on obedience to convictions or in a fit of passion. Deprived of the satisfaction of the former and now on the party's liquidation list, he is led off the stage in a fit of tormented laughter as the last curtain falls...
...assassin is the sensitive, thoughtful man who is incapable of compromise, who loves people "not for what they are but for what they will become." He is aware of his own inefficacy in a world he would have perfect. He is the impatient, compassionleas idealist who has lived to see his own bones go-into the making of bricks for a shrine to his avowed enemy...
...yards from the savage fighting. Her nose was running, her flaxen hair was wet and bedraggled, and she had a sore under one of her eyes, which were pale blue and showed no emotion or even comprehension of the scene. With the other children, she was chanting, "Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin...
...Rome, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was feeling tiptop for the first time since he was laid low by a would-be assassin last July 14. He presided at a meeting of the Communist Central Committee, addressed a wildly cheering political meeting of 150,000, and expected to go back to his seat in Parliament...
...travail of 400 million in the Indian subcontinent have come two symbols-a man of love and a man of hate. Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71, died a natural death in Karachi, capital of the state he had founded. His devoted and equally fanatic sister, Fatima, was at his side; so was his daughter, Mrs. Dinah Wadia, whom he had disowned because she married a Parsee (as he had done before...