Word: clues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she was in a happy frame of mind; finally one night, when she was sad, he got it over with). But the crime is seldom shrewdly planned; many psychotic murderers operate in broad daylight, in public places, using any weapon that happens to come to hand. Another characteristic clue left by the mad killer is unnecessary roughness (cutting the body into ribbons or stuffing it into a drainpipe). Since the psychotic lives in a private world, he hardly ever has accomplices...
...China were deceptively simple: they were to recover and identify the bodies of U.S. servicemen who had died there during World War II. But few soldiers had ever had a tougher peacetime assignment. Many of China's 3,700 missing U.S. dead had vanished almost without a clue, lay scattered in remote and inaccessible regions from Manchuria to the hot forests of Thailand. The most dramatic example: the 879 men who had died in the wrecks of 468 different airplanes trying to fly the cloud-hung Himalayan Hump...
...many [doctors] remember that a wife's relation to her husband, or to her dreary isolation in household tasks, a man's reaction to his job or his wages or his living quarters, a child's to his parents or his school, may be the clue to a major illness...
...amount of information given varies in the different departments. Oddly enough, the worst offenders are among the social sciences: Economics, Government, and History offer only a title as a clue to the subject matter, while an exact science such as Biology gives a good summary. With a new catalogue impending, the various departments should go over their courses with an eye to describing them instead of merely announcing them. The resultant catalogue would be more than an academic menu, and less dishes would be rejected on first taste, to the mutual convenience of undergraduate and administration...
Special officer Edward Gelnnon, dispatched to the snow country by Cambridge police headquarters to take part in the hunt, returned two nights ago with the opinion that the testimony of cafe employees in Meredith asserting they had served Gardiner on January 28, was the best clue to work...