Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported that U.S. crime decreased slightly in 1947-the first decrease since before World War II. But the year's total of "serious" crimes was still a whopper: 1,665,110 (including 7,760 murders...
...courtroom cheered the prisoner.) Q. You are reported to have said that the regime in Yugoslavia is atheistic, that violence and crime have the upper hand and there is urgent need for action to remove the tyranny. Did you speak in this manner...
Conductor Talich's dismissal was a measure of public order as natural for a Communist as it would be for a New York cop to take a pistol out of a maniac's hands. Once in power, the Communist de fines crime as whatever may undermine him; he wants to stamp out "crime" be fore it has been committed. This kind of preventive policing is more concerned with thoughts, attitudes, feelings, than it is with overt acts...
...Prison Is a Prison." Beria, of course, has an office in the Kremlin; but he does most of his work in Lyubyanka Prison,* not very far from the tomb of Lenin, who said he would make a state without crime, police or prisons. In the old hopeful days it was called the "Soviet Home for Those Who Have Lost Their Freedom." These days, it is frankly known as Lyubyanka Prison, for, as an eminent Soviet journal wrote in a campaign against squeamishness: "A prison is a prison." On his rare public appearances with other Soviet big shots, Beria usually seeks...
...crime did not pay for the Ikedas, at least courage and persistence did. Last week their counterfeiting came to an abrupt end as police closed in on their iron hovel. Citizens of Osaka, hearing the pathetic story of Kanji and Yoshino, promptly raised and sent to the jail a sympathy fund of 18,000 yen-almost twice what the Ikedas had been able to paint for themselves...