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Word: commits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cuter killer exists than Salem (Max von Sydow), doomed to spend his life in a lunatic asylum. Framed for a homicide he did not commit, Salem becomes as vengeful as Dracula. Alone, he contrives to exit his maximum-security cell clothed only in socks, shoes, T shirt and briefs-in the dead of winter. With unrefined malice, he dispatches the framers, among them his sister (Liv Ullman), his mistress and a lawyer. Some are garroted, others drugged or axed to death. Then Salem undoes his escape, hustles back through the snow, ascends a stone wall just slightly less perilous than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cute Dracula | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Because of "ignorant" judges and jurors, and lawyers who urge their clients to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit, Garry said. 60 million minority Americans "do not get any form or semblance of justice...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Garry Condemns American 'Justice' | 2/27/1971 | See Source »

...said, is instrumental in the current "attempt by the establishment to commit genocide on the Black Panther Party...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Garry Condemns American 'Justice' | 2/27/1971 | See Source »

...asks. as a future goal, that Harvard and Radcliffe commit themselves to achieving a one-to-one ratio in admissions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUS Insists On 2-1 Ratio In Houses | 2/27/1971 | See Source »

However, the months since May Day have seen another New Haven Panther, Lonnie McLucas, receive what seemed to be a fair trial, at least by the standards of normal criminal justice. McLucas was convicted on the charge of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 15 years-largely on the testimony of George Sams, Loretta Luckas, and Warren Kimbro, other Panthers who had been indicted in the crime and then turned state's evidence...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: The Focus Blurs on the Trial in New Haven | 2/26/1971 | See Source »

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