Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the nations of Europe and the Far East are still gripped by the cold, hunger, and stagnation which breed vice, crime, and revolution; but they are loosed from the maniac-driven war chariot of the Axis, and they look to a future, far from untroubled yet tempered by the hope for better days. The vision of One World has faded, and its place been taken by the fact of two worlds--divided ideologically and politically. Yet much of this division is due to lack of knowledge (a condition which can be rectified) and to a simple and natural...
Delinquency, immorality, and crime, now as always, are prevalent. But, though their form has changed, there is no evidence that they are more extensive than at any other time in our history. And happily their cause is no longer sought for in the degeneracy of the individual but in the malfunction of society itself. Probably the most indefensible of all the nation's shortcomings is the condition of its schools, neglected, under-financed, poorly staffed, too much devoted to the dissemation of undigested facts of dogmatic fallacy rather than to education in the sense of giving the student an understanding...
...Yard called in entomology experts of the British Museum. Who might have engineered this stunning crime? The answer was as obvious as cherchez la femme: only a person with a consuming love of lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since...
...Tanimura last week, depressed over the failure of a candidate he backed in a local election, Taniyuki Shimura killed himself by biting off his tongue. In crime-ridden Tokyo, 24-year-old Kan Arai threw himself under a railroad train, "because by becoming a policeman I have discovered the corruption and dishonesty of sublunary affairs. It is useless to be a policeman in such a world...
...Sonia was lured into a vacant house, attacked, and choked to death. So begins Prelude to a Certain Midnight, the fifth novel by British Novelist Gerald Kersh (Sergeant Nelson of the Guards, Faces in a Dusty Picture). For a few pages Kersh fiddles around the psychological fringes of the crime, then he runs through a roster of gaudy suspects...