Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears to be my duty to bring you up to date about the crime conditions here in Indianapolis so vividly described in TIME...
...true that Indianapolis has been "frightened" during this crime wave, but there appears to be no further occasion for fright, and we think a very good job of police work has been done to meet an ugly situation, which, by the way, is not peculiar to Indianapolis...
Czech Communists promptly began wrapping their promised bread with Communist threats. Communist Party Secretary Richard Slansky announced: "If anyone now dares to criticize the Soviet Union it will be a crime against the state." Communist Minister of Information Vaclav Kopecky more ominously added: "From now on anti-Communism is actually high treason." Retorted the National Socialist Svobodny Zitrek: "What are the Communists threatened by? Nothing but democracy...
...limited number of copies may be procured this week at the Crime's business office on Plympton Street, between the hours of nine and five o'clock...
Dean Pollock thought that it was no crime to sometimes split an infinitive, and that a preposition was often a good word to end a sentence with. But, he added, they should "avoid pushing every new or seeming truth we meet to the edge of folly. It is folly to conclude . . . that there are no standards of good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used...