Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practitioner of the art of making headlines, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver has few equals in the political world. Before the Democratic Convention of 1952, he turned a television reputation as a crusader against crime into a good run for the presidential nomination. This year he is hard at work again, and not doing badly, with the same old formula...
...muddy path through a sugar field, a stealthy figure had crept up behind Abdias, struck him over the head and robbed him. When he awoke the next day, caked with blood and mud, Abdias had crept away, not daring to report the assault because of his own crime...
...larynx. Why, then, had he called in his brother to help fake a suicide? Sudden panic at finding his assailant dead, said Sergeant Emmett-Dunne. "I was only going to stun him." For nine days, while banner headlines in the London press blared forth the details of the latest crime of passion (20 British and ten German reporters covered the proceedings), the seven-man army court considered Emmett-Dunne's story...
With reasonable parental instruction and discipline, nearly everybody outgrows or learns to control these traits. But if children carry them over uncontrolled into adult life, the result is a character defect or disorder.* An active, severe defect, said Dr. Kelley, may lead directly to crime-a simple example of "sees what he wants and takes...
...Crime Wave. In Kansas City, Mo., Glenn Bernard Mitchell, 32, was sentenced to 10-to-21 years in prison for walking into the Bon-Ton Beauty Salon, receiving a cold-wave permanent, then stealing $38 at gunpoint and fleeing without paying for the hairdo...