Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidewalks outside U.N. headquarters, too, Trujillo got the kind of attention usually reserved for Vishinsky. Some 40 glowering pickets, Dominican exiles who have been dogging the dictator's tracks ever since he landed in Washington 12 weeks ago, paraded back & forth with signs denouncing him as an "assassin" and "murderer." They also lugged a big black coffin, which is supposed to symbolize the fate of Trujillo's opponents. The generalissimo, making his departure after the fifteen-minute opening session, probably did not even see the pickets. Twenty cops and bodyguards surrounded him as he climbed into his limousine...
John Wilkes Booth had been the darling of the family. On Edwin fell the double burden of detesting the assassin while mourning the brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities to allow the Booths to give John's body Christian burial. He wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, who did not deign to reply. He wrote to General Grant, who ignored him too. It was President Andrew Johnson who at last handed over John's remains, the raven...
...adventures in the Vatican carries a kind of unshakable conviction. Nor is it all a vision: Rolfe is well aware of the humor of his hero's situation, and plays it often for laughs and even for smiles. Yet when the Pope at last dies, felled by an assassin, the moment is quite as high and tragic as the language Rolfe renders...
...mayor one day: "Monsieur le Maire, I have the honor to inform you that disorderly elements have been busy last night defacing our fair city with unsightly inscriptions." Sure enough, the decent walls of Cenon were plastered with such discourteous signs as "U.S. Go Home" and "Ridgway-Assassin." Said Mayor René Cassagne: "I hereby order you to take a bucket of whitewash and efface these inscriptions." Constable Magne blotted out the signs-but next morning there were more of them...
...week's end the celebrating assassin announced: "Politics is not my business. I will go back to my job as a carpenter." But he had one more social call to make: he asked Court Minister Hussein Ala to set up an audience with the Shah...