Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the old regimes decided to rely on American charity, they committed an unpardonable crime against Franco-American friendship, which can only be based upon mutual respect. The Atlantic alliance should not rely on satellites...
Shortly before Easter in 1895, two English boys, aged 8 and 9, were wrenched from the security of a happy family life in Victorian London and sent abroad like fugitive criminals to forget their past, their parenthood and even their names. The crime from which they fled was that of being born the sons of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, the most famous and quite suddenly the most notorious literary figure...
...wonder youthful ghouls in New York should be caught murdering and battering old men and then yowl "Mama" when run down. You are breeding a race of monsters, nurtured in a diseased way of life that is based upon atom bombs, crime comics, bad movies and the cult of the almighty dollar . . . This is what you want to foist upon the world . . . You fool only your own "booboisie...
Last week, with most of the ring in jail, the government lifted censorship slightly, revealing that it had arrested 400 officers for "working in the interests of a foreign power." "Almost all ... have confessed to their crime of treason," added Teheran grimly...
Adultery being a crime in California, Bandleader Muzzy Marcellino was well within his constitutional rights when, in a Hollywood divorce court last week, he invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to say whether he had been intimate with an actress. This was a classic use of the Fifth Amendment; no unpleasant consequences followed for the bandleader...