Word: bludgeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Budelis, Parker, Munyon, and company, on many sore points between their group and the radicals, they are guilty merely of clever politicking. But White's appointment and the Elder myth that served as a bludgeon prior to Feintuch's muzzling constitute something more...
...Chamber. When Gary Lee Miller, 17, was charged with the bludgeon murder of Judy Lee Ziegler, 20, few of the folks in Allegany County, Md., doubted that he was guilty. After all, he knew Judy and had been seen walking along the same road that Judy had been driving on the murder night. What's more, he was a strange, unpopular kid and had been convicted of rape three years before. There was so much prejudice against him that his court-appointed attorney doubted that an impartial jury could be impaneled. Rather than risk it, he asked that...
...already a matter of legal record that Dr. Sam Sheppard is entitled to a massive grievance against the press. After serving nearly ten years of a life sentence for the 1954 bludgeon-murder of his wife, the Ohio osteopath won a second trial on the ground that newspaper stories had made him the victim of "inherently prejudicial publicity" - and subsequent acquittal...
...minutes later, at about 5:10 a.m. He found that Valerie had been stabbed six times around her nose and left eye, once in the neck, twice in the chest and twice in the stomach. There were four cone-shaped puncture wounds in her skull, all caused by heavy, bludgeon-like blows. Dr. Hohf slowly descended the circular staircase to the living room where Percy, Loraine, Sharon and Gail sat in wordless shock. Percy rose, and Hohf said: "Valerie is gone. She is dead...
...likes to shock mildly stuffy people, though it's not the Edward Albee bludgeon of agonized revelation but the pinch of a grown-up undergrad. He served up Peace Corps Sally in the same spirit that he offered conversation at Radcliffe, breaking the white tablecloth and candlelight quiet of the dinner by singing, "I would have let him see me naked," a lament from his dramatization of The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. "This girl's boyfriend goes to a brothel," Kopit happily explained, "and she sings this song describing what she would have done for him. It's got violins...