Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reik cites several common happenings, well known to the police, which seem to symbolize the murderer's urge to self-betrayal : murderers often defecate at the scene of the crime (detectives call it "the visiting card") and in some cases have been caught by chemical analysis of the feces; they usually return to the scene; they frequently blurt their knowledge of the murder to total strangers. In one famous case the urge to self-punishment went so far that the murderer, trying a noose with which he intended to hang a child who had witnessed the murder, fell...
...Some increase in the basic gasoline ration for cars and trucks (A-card holders might get an extra gallon for each coupon...
Director U.S.O. Fairbanks, Alaska tl Complete rules may be had free from the Association of American Playing Card Mfgs., 420 Lexington Ave., New York City...
...experience of Aachen, M.G. moved fast and seemed to know what it was doing. An ex-police chief removed by the Nazis in 1933 was found and reinstated, as were 123 cops who passed the M.G. muster. As each resident was registered and fingerprinted, he got a ration card. With the assistance of 63 ex-telephone-company employes, telephone service was partially restored...
...screamed with pain, dropped to the pavement. A grenade had exploded prematurely in his hand. On his shattered body was found a Communist Party membership card...