Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Crime. Italian Communism marshaled its biggest guns in defense of their hero, led by Partisan Chief Luigi Longo, now a Deputy. But, faced with the evidence, the Communist defense had to acknowledge that the victims were neither spies nor Fascists, and that it had been a "tragic mistake." Retorted the public prosecutor: "It was a dry and cold-blooded common crime . . . infamous, indecent, cruel murder...
Late this afternoon all Crimeds will betake themselves to Philadelphia for a visit to the Betsy Ross (nee Griscom) house. After a brief meeting at the White House and a visit to Washington shrines, they will return tomorrow to compete in the Boston marathon. Odds for a Crime winner are set at 23 to 2. Results Friday...
...crime upon which the plot of Oedipus rests is so foul and revolting that the base suggestion of it is not to be found in even the worst modern literature.... She (Harvard) it is who planned to gather from hundreds of homes all that is pure and maidenly and guileless, shut it up within her walls and subject it to this hard ordeal...
Well might free discussion worry the Communist leaders; when they talked of Stalin's great crime, the obvious question to them was, "Where were you?" and the only answer was, "We were afraid." Such a confession of cowardice, and the implied admission of complicity in Stalin's crimes, hardly enhanced their claims to be leaders...
...another should the need arise. That the means which he proposes to use are not clearly stated is an advantage, not only as a piece of skillful maneuvering in an election year, but because it will give him greater freedom later "to fit the punishment to the crime." For this reason, the President's unclarified commitment--provided he does not fail to act in a pinch--is a masterstroke of diplomacy--while saying nothing definitely, his meaning is clear...