Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought against the Turks with T. E. (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) Lawrence in World War I, dealt deftly with the British and emerged as founder and first King of modern Iraq. He died in 1933. His brother Abdullah with British subsidies made a state out of arid Jordan. An assassin killed him a year...
...Rhee addressed 6,000 people at a meeting commemorating the second anniversary of the Korean war, an elderly Korean rose from his seat at the rear of the platform, advanced toward Rhee, a German automatic in hand. U.S. Lieut. Colonel Herbert Harmon stuck out his foot, tripping the assassin. As the Korean went down, Colonel Harmon clouted him in the neck, and another American officer disarmed the man. The silent scuffle escaped the crowd's notice, but Rhee's crony, Lee Bum Suk, the ambitious Home Minister, saw it all and interrupted his boss to tell the breathless...
...opponents of the Long dynasty had some interesting points to raise. Earl had carried on for the family after Brother Huey ("Kingfish") was cut down by an assassin in 1935, seven years after he had founded the line. Earl lost control when the citizens revolted and turned him out of the governor's office in 1940, but he staged a comeback in 1948. In the governor's chair once again, he out-Hueyed Huey and his "make every man a king" program. Earl gave the state big old-age pensions, cheap school lunches, veterans' bonuses and highway...
...Government employees he doesn't like, said Truman. "When he said he had information from the FBI," a reporter asked, "do you think he was telling the truth?" Countered Truman: Does he ever tell the truth? He doesn't need information to become a character assassin. Then the President glared and said that he was not talking with immunity from law suit...
...succession of Premiers, the strong man of Syria has been a small, thin, professional soldier named Colonel Adib Shishekly. Shishekly, 44, now Syria's chief of staff, came to power through a coup in December 1949, and has been living dangerously ever since. Last year a would-be assassin took a pot shot at him; today, Shishekly maintains three houses, sleeps in a different one each night. A morose, short-tempered man who shuns publicity, he has been content to run the show from the background. Last week, for the first time, he came out into the open...