Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lying face up. Then he saw that a smear on the pillow matched the lipstick she was wearing. That clinched his suspicion. Detectives tracked down her estranged husband, and he confessed having strangled his wife. If the body had been moved, Dr. Helpern would have missed the telltale clue...
Every now and then the sludge of crime news floats an clue to the state of law enforcement in one of the great U.S. cities. Such an clue is the plight of Joe ("Lefty") Auteri and John ("The Rabbit") Noto, two Brooklyn stevedores who committed an serious crime but-all things considered-not an very serious crime...
...first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born. It is then he insists on setting up a separate establishment." With this provocative generalization, written 80 years ago in The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler not only supplied the main clue to his own character but set hissing the long fuse at whose other end stood that grand, portentous chunk of dynamite, the Victorian father. But Butler's masterpiece was only published after his death (1902), and it was not until the rebellious '20s that his Way of All Flesh became...
...York bubbled with speculation as to how the week's revelations would affect Tom Dewey's pending decision whether to run for another term as governor. Dewey himself gave no clue, but this week made it clear who had appointed the harness-racing investigators in the first place. "I instructed them to turn harness tracks upside down and inside out," said Dewey. "They have done exactly that...
Since this is not a matter of a legal tradition (as in property law) nor of a constitutional arrangement which might be other than it is (as in the provisions for legislation) but of an a priori principle intrinsic to any free society, the clue to what the Amendment means will have to come from an understanding of what it must mean as a constitutional principle of a free society. Thus, following Dean Griswold, we must inquire concerning its moral basis, i.e., its place in the realization of freedom and its connection with the moral respect which is the foundation...