Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Double Six. Hewitt's crime, in the eyes of his fellow workers, was his failure last December to join the one-day walkout of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at the Staveley works in Derbyshire. He had not joined the strike because his own union, the General and Municipal Workers, said not to. Despite the explanation, Ed Boyce, the A.E.U. shop steward, ruled: "The men in this shop .are not going to speak to you for six months." Hewitt might have moved on to some other shop, because he was still in good standing with his own union...
...hair." Further: "Our children become nuisances at the age of six. They can't be put to work until they are 20 or 22 years old with any success. They can't be put in the penitentiary, as a rule, because they haven't committed any crime. And the Civilian Conservation Corps [the now legendary CCC of youthful shovel-leaners] has been abandoned...
...anger or pleasure the way they do to such dailies as the successful Milwaukee Journal or Scripps-Howard's moneymaking Cleveland Press. The city's dailies have given comparatively little continuing coverage to New York's trouble-ridden police department, traffic problems, housing conditions and soaring crime rate. Some of the papers are making tentative and erratic steps in that direction. But for the most part, in their frantic search for readers, New York's dailies have turned to black type, tricks and entertainment instead of the kind of journalism that once made New York...
...Nineteen states have sterilization laws specifically applicable to epileptics; 17 forbid them marriage (six states make marriage a crime); 16 refuse to let them drive...
...year-old girl (Maria Schell). Their raptures are brief. The heat, the secrecy, the difference in their ages, the knowing that they can never marry-all these things tell on their nerves. In the end, blackmailed by the villain, who has intercepted a love letter, Scobie is driven to crime in order to protect his wife from the knowledge that he loves another. And haunting him every moment is the sense that two women now, not just one, hold him to blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals...