Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alabama's Atmore prison farm, Jimmie Wilson, 55, a Negro handyman, awaited the bell's toll: he is under sentence to die in the electric chair next week. His crime: a $1.95 robbery...
...himself disdains comparison with the other Russian, whom he regards as a clumsy and vulgar writer. Yet, the suppressed criminal episode in Dostoevsky's' The Possessed invites analogy with Lolita. Stavrogin, Dostoevsky's moral monster, seduced an innocent. The difference is that Stavrogin told of his crime to prove he was capable of it; Nabokov's character tells his agonized story to show that he was incapable of not committing it. In Nabokov's world, crime is its own punishment, and the possessed are not possessed by devils but by themselves...
...theater's ornamental caryatids, palmettes, trellises, cartouches and balustrades were painstakingly removed and tucked away again, safe from falling bombs. Local Nazis deemed the mothballing a show of defeatism, called it a crime as bad as flight from the enemy-until Allied bombers wrecked the dismantled building in a March 1944 raid. After the war, with a new, big Festival Theater built on its old Residenz site, the administration chose a neighboring spot in the former royal Bavarian Residence, and set about rebuilding the rococo house...
...hope these commemorative events will bring home to those concerned with the dropping of the bomb that they were guilty of acts so shameful that Japan will never forget them." Said Mayor Watanabe: "We now view the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, no matter for what purpose, as a crime committed against mankind." And he added: "We have become frightened...
Last week, still uncomfortable in his new uniform, Wayne Powers was brought up before his court-martial in Verdun, pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion, waited for a light sentence. After all it had been a long time. But deserting, especially in war, is a high crime, and so the court-martial viewed it. The sentence: ten years at hard labor (maximum for desertion: death). The sentence is subject to review, and it may be drastically reduced. Said sturdy Yvette: "I've only one wish -that he be released soon so that we can get married and lead...