Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misanthropic store clerk whose only previous offenses had been housebreaking and burying cats alive, and Brady's blonde mistress, Esther Myra Hindley, 23, a wheyfaced, bouffant stenotypist. They were charged with slowly killing a ten-year-old girl and two boys, twelve and 17, by suffocation and ax blows, among other means. Two of the victims were buried naked in the bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady's house. In addition to the bodies, photographs and tape recordings (found...
...newspaper can be so yellow." enjoyed an occasional tete-a-tete with a well-dressed, soft-spoken Courier reporter. (Exception: A team of reporters covering the first civil rights demonstration in Ft. Deposit, not far from Selma, were surrounded by white mobs twice; a country voting examiner smashed an ax handle through their car windshield; and five carloads of toughs followed them out of town.) A drugstore owner in Linden bought a copy of the paper from two reporters, remarking, "Course, I make up my own mind, but I've heard from people I respect--sheriffs and all--that this...
...spend on simply keeping informed," said TIME's prospectus. "TIME is interested not in how much it includes between its covers but in how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers. To keep men well-informed?that, first and last, is the only ax this magazine has to grind." Even so, declared Hadden and Luce, "the editors recognize that complete neutrality on public questions and important news is probably as undesirable as it is impossible, and are therefore ready to acknowledge certain prejudices." Among them: "Faith in the things which money cannot buy; a respect...
Higgledy-piggledy Rodya Raskolnikov Belted two dames with a Broad-bladed ax. " I am the wictim of Misericordia, Beaten," said he, "by re-Legion...
...this pacifist parable based on C. Virgil Gheorghiu's 1950 novel, the peasant hero is presented as an inexorably cheerful Candide who earnestly tries to say something favorable about World War II but merely sounds like a man looking on the bright side of the ax that is cutting his head...