Word: bludgeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold supply?and they can demand gold for them at any time. Though it is highly unlikely that they would ever cash in enough to break Fort Knox or force the U.S. to devalue the dollar, the mere fact that they have the power to do so is a bludgeon and a bother...
...four judges read the same record, the odds are that two of them will conclude exactly the opposite of what the other two conclude. Or so it seems from the endless case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Ohio osteopath who was convicted ten years ago for the bludgeon-murder of his wife...
...process involves a delicate meld of drawing board and bulldozer, budget and ballot box, bludgeon and crystal ball. Technically, every time an enterprising builder tears down an old building and replaces it with a new one, it is urban renewal. But only in recent years has the process been conceived in terms of an overall plan to reshape the city...
...Sheppard was a free man last week. Almost ten years after his conviction for the bludgeon-murder of his wife, the Ohio osteopath was ordered released from prison-by U.S. District Judge Carl A. Weinman on the ground that his constitutional rights had been violated because he had not been given a fair trial. State authorities wasted no time getting a stay order from the Court of Appeals, but technical difficulties with the necessary arrest order kept Sheppard out of prison. He thanked his lawyer, joined some relatives at a motel, and held an impromptu press conference. Calm and smiling...
Married. Dr. Samuel Sheppard, 40, onetime Cleveland osteopath just released from the Ohio Penitentiary after serving almost ten years of a life sentence for the bludgeon-slaying of his wife; and Ariane Tebbenjohanns, 35, platinum-blonde German divorcée, his pen-pal fiancee since January 1963; both for the second time; in Chicago...