Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pounce of Intervention. In El Paso, U.S. Army Private Jesus Martinez, seized by police after he had robbed a jewelry store, thanked his captors, explained: "If I d gotten away with it, I might have been tempted to lead a life of crime...
Most of these people are involved in a robbery, with Bogart as the kingpin. The robbery succeeds, but once again crime does not turn out to be a blue-chip enterprise...
...waif, who like to be called Pa and Velma, are not mixed up in the crime; they are in the film only to serve as handy objects of Bogart's generosity--for his heart is at least as good as Miss L's. Bogart is equally generous to a little dog named Pard; here he shows bad judgement, Pard being enough to make any sensible man turn vivisectionist...
Glitter Gone. The new regime is still wreaking its vengeance on the old. Last week the government prosecutor demanded the head of U.S.-educated ex-Premier Fadhil Jamali. Jamali's chief crime: taking Iraq into the Baghdad Pact. Cried the prosecutor: "God ordained that we should have one head left out of those destroyed at the hands of the people. God be praised for these blessed hours in which the enemy of the people stands in the prisoner's dock before the People's Court...
Loss Is a Crime. Matsushita has few, if any, equals in vigorous defense of free enterprise. He once declared, to a leftist's assertion that profits are wrong, that a "minus profit [i.e., a business loss] is a social crime." Like his opposite members in the U.S., Matsushita worries about taxes, frets over government interference: "Business skill cannot be deployed effectively unless businessmen have 70% to 80% freedom. In Japan there is about 50% government interference...