Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Reaction of most men to Leon Trotsky's death-but not of his former comrades in Moscow-was horror. For the moment it was all but forgotten that Trotsky himself was a terrorist. The world's dwindling community of civilized minds realized only that it had lost one of the supreme masters of prose of its time, wondered whether that brain had completed its last work-the biography of its implacable persecutor, Dictator Stalin. They wondered too what part the approaching completion of the biography might have played as a motive for the crime...
...March he set off for a "vacation in Mexico." Secretly, before leaving Manhattan, Sheldon Harte had visited Leon Trotsky's lawyer, Albert Goldman, who hired the youth to work in Mexico City as a secretary-bodyguard to the Great Exile. Last month Sheldon was kidnapped by a terrorist group who riddled the Trotsky home with bullets, tossed an incendiary bomb into the courtyard, killed nobody in the house (TIME, June 3). Next day Jesse S. Harte (until then unaware of his son's job with Trotsky) enplaned in Manhattan, streaked to Mexico City, offered 10,000 pesos...