Word: arsons
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...half the population is on relief. Narcotics, robbery and corruption are common. Last winter Police Chief William Ware stole a Christ mas fund for underprivileged children. Township Supervisor Elwood Dickens' saloon, the dirtiest in town, is a hangout for minors. Royal Oak Township's rapes, burglaries and arson cases go uninvestigated. The township treasury has an unexplained shortage...
...R.A.F. radio operator in Malaya. Far from being one of Britain's heavily intellectual Angry Young Men, Sillitoe is extremely matter of fact in his recital of the war between the two nations. The blokes he writes about may have been "put inside" for anything from arson to stealing cars, from burglary to grabbing passing women and "trying to give them what...
...weeks, murder and arson have terrorized the African settlements in the countryside around modern Lusaka (pop. 70,000). One native woman died in agony after thugs sprinkled her with gasoline and set her afire. Gangs roamed the countryside burning 23 huts in six weeks and leaving five more Africans dead. It began after the fledgling United National Independence Party tested its strength with a call to all Africans to boycott the municipal beer halls. When this failed, the arson wave began against African families who refused to support the beer-hall...
...males: those they did not kill they maimed by chopping off their feet. They put banana plantations to the torch, set dozens of villages afire, left some helpless old people to burn to death in their own huts. In three days alone, 600 tribesmen were arrested for arson, and at week's end the number of dead neared the 200 mark...
Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. Was the flaming death of the cruise ship Morro Castle a horrendous case of arson? Reporter Gallagher files a fascinating, if circumstantial, brief against the ship's chief radio operator...