Word: bludgeons
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...Died. Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, 46, Cleveland osteopath and central figure in a famed 1954 murder case; of as yet undetermined causes; in Columbus. After a nine-week trial that made headlines around the world, "Dr. Sam" was convicted of the brutal bludgeon murder of his wife Marilyn. Sentenced to life, he served nearly ten years before the Supreme Court upset his conviction in 1966 on the ground that "inherently prejudicial publicity" had prevented him from receiving a fair trial. Retried and acquitted (the murder weapon was never found), Sheppard married a German divorcee who had become...
When all the Distresses of student Life had been successfully reduced to Variants of these two Words, a new program Card was introduced. Depending which End of this Card, punched to outline the Shape of a Crocodile with a Bludgeon Tail, fed first into the Computer, an answer hummed back appropriate to the desired Response. Organization was thus considerably further streamlined...
...last hundred years, tired and frustrated at the end of his term, wanted to bequeath some mark of concrete and marble, some monument to belie his own colossal incomprehension and inability to deal with the complexity of American life. And so he employed the resident artistic hacks to bludgeon the reluctant marble into the unlikely shapes that grace the Mall...
Cambridge police have not found a suspect in the bludgeon murder of 50-year-old widow Mrs. Ada C. Bean last Thursday...
...increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...