Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This spring his house was bombed while he was away. Last week, as Lyuh's car drove down a street near his home, a young gunman fired three shots. Two of them found their mark. A police lieutenant rushed out to capture the assassin, grappled with Lyuh's bodyguard instead. The murderer got away. Two hours later, in a Seoul hospital, Death, as it must to all men, came to Lyuh Woon Heung...
From the Senate Office Building, the would-be assassin walked quietly out into the street. Within two hours police found him, learned that he was an ex-Capitol policeman named William L. Kaiser and fetched him back to be identified by Bricker...
Qualunquist Leader Giannini rose to protest. Communist deputies shouted: "Assassin!" Communist Carlo Farini advanced with clenched fists upon the rightist deputies. He was followed by a strong Communist detachment. Then Pietro Nenni, a follower of the party line, led a sizable Socialist task force into the fray. Inkwells hurtled. Chairs were swung. Fists landed with a satisfying thud on legislative noses. Nearly 200 deputies took part in the brawl. Centrists tried frantically to untangle the Right and the Left...
Uruguay's President Gabriel Terra, recovering from an assassin's bullet, urged him not to ride through the streets of Montevideo, F.D.R. burst out laughing. "I can't see where I run any risks," he exclaimed, poking his fellow-president in the ribs. "You are the president they...
...Chaco. That was on Oct. 23, 1931. Last month Guggiari got a rousing homecoming reception from members of his Liberal Party. As he spoke to them, an airplane emblazoned with the students' motto, "October 23- Rest in Peace," swept low. As the ex-President rode down Calle Palma, "assassin" and other insults glared from the walls. At the Panteón Nacional, shrine of Paraguay's heroes, students and Liberals met head on. The police charged in. Soon, more heroes decorated the shrine; two lay dead, 39 were injured...