Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime is stealing a 4 by 6 inch rectangular sheet of white metal marked "U.S. Mail Schedule." His punishment for "tampering with the mails" can be a $1,000 fine or three years in prison. His last theft--the thinrd in as many weeks--provoked Tutor Cheever to post a terse warning of "a severe punishment' for the offender...
Twas the night before giftmas and all through the Houses, not a creature was stirring, cept a few little louses. Divisions of relatives marched through their heads (for whom gifts they'd forgotten) as they paced round their beds. But then in the morn at the Crime they did peer, and what to their grateful eyes should appear, but the page you see now and gifts that are here...
...crime, as in other business endeavors, it is imagination, pluck and thinking in big terms that spell success. This is the American way, and it is right. But in a system of free enterprise there should always be room at the bottom for the little fellow who is neither mentally nor morally fit to compete with the big boys. And on behalf of the tin-horn punk, friends of small business look with uneasiness upon recent developments in the world of crime...
...Donnell further criticizes Conant for not taking strong action against the Russians for the murder of seven West Germans, and act in direct opposition to a four-power agreement which emphatically defines execution of civilians in an occupied territory as a crime against humanity...
Krock sent Crimson linguists scrounging through foreign dictionaries to translate his wire, but when it was finally deciphered it was found that he too spurned the Crime's offer. "As we used to remind one another in Nassau Hall," Knock wrote. "Ledigheid is honkers moodier en van dieted voile brooder." (Idleness is hunger's mother, and of thieves it is full brother...