Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor of the Michael Mullins Marching and Chowder Society's brilliant efforts is defend Hibernia against marauding inadels from lower Bow St., there will be so Crime tomorrow...
...whether he know William Johnson, the president of four dog tracks in Florida. These questions, together with others, the court stated did not appear on their face or in context "to pertain to the investigation which was being conducted in 1951 into the activities of organized crime in interstate commerce." Accordingly, the trial court should have directed a verdict of acquittal...
...thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even flinch when the Emir's men chopped off his hand at the wrist-for he knew that he had got off lightly. If he and Juliet had been charged with their actual crime-adultery-both would have been tied into a jute bag, set afire, tossed to the ground from the highest tower in Khobar and then left...
Televiewers last week finally got more violence than they could stomach. The blood and brutality took place, not on a crime show or a western film, but in the lightweight championship fight between Challenger Tommy Collins, 133 Ibs., and Champion Jimmy Carter, 135 Ibs., televised over NBC from the Boston Garden. After two relatively even rounds, Carter hit Collins (an overblown featherweight) a hard left to the jaw. For an instant, Collins remained dazedly upright; then he fell backward to the canvas as if poleaxed...
...young 'Ntoni sank to the running of contraband, stabbed the local policeman in a brawl and was sentenced to five years at hard labor. Dishonored by her brother's crime, the younger sister ran away and became a prostitute; the elder stayed home to be an old maid. The old man died in the poorhouse. Alessi and the girl he loved, Nunziata, were left to rebuild the family's fortunes. "The house of the Malavoglia is destroyed'' a neighbor said in epitaph. "Cursed be the fate that led to so many misfortunes...