Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eagerness is not the only quality expected from CRIMSON candidates. Writing ability prospers under a system by which every line that appears in print is ruthlessly scrutinized by jealous critics. It is not by chance that for the past three years in a row the Crime has won the Dana Reed award for the best writing to appear in a Harvard undergraduate publication...
...almost went with them. Now I know why they-and very nearly myself-were wrong. It is the same reason so many of you, the Americans, are wrong about us. You want, and we wanted, too much too quickly. Now I know and my friends know that our crime was impatience. Some people turn this around and call it a lack of trust. But it was not that. It was impatience, a grinding desire to achieve our hearts' desires overnight...
...Enough to Start With." Paik brushed away a strand of black hair from his forehead. He said: "I have talked with more Americans in the last two years than I thought I would see in my lifetime. Now I know that your greatest crime, in terms of political expectations from us, is impatience. You want too much too quickly...
Nobody can estimate how many sex "crimes" are actually committed, the researchers concluded, because most sexual acts which violate California's penal code are done in private by "mutually consenting" adults. Even when the crime is clearer, as in cases involving children, it is often hushed up. But in recorded court cases, the investigators could find no evidence of a great wave of sex crime, or that "sex fiends" were everywhere on the prowl. Serious sex offenses made up one-tenth of all the criminal cases tried in the superior courts. The fact finders considered the commoner misdemeanors (such...
Near Tucson. Ariz., two Boy Scouts found a cave with seven human skulls covered with bat guano. Just to be safe, they told both the sheriff and the archaeologists. The skulls proved to be intermediate between crime and science: a few hundred years old. José Abeyta, head of the council of San Juan Pueblo, turned up a Spanish helmet from the days of the early conquerors...