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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, Collins cites his opponent as "sponsor of the law that legalized pinball machines in the Common-wealth--which a Federal Court has ruled to be gambling devices." And, says Collins, Powers has "refused to explain why he voted against the Massachusetts Crime Commission." Finally, the Register of Probate charges that Powers' "unlimited supply of campaign funds is constantly unexplained and mysterious...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Boston's Campaign: A Pun Against a Promise | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Organized crime, regrettably, is often efficient enough to avoid prosecution when it does something significantly heinous. It would be nice if big-time criminals could be locked up just because everyone knew they were big-time criminals. The Anglo-American legal system, however, doesn't work that way. But, if the "conspiracy to obstruct justice" charge sticks, maybe it does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guilt by Congregation | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Archbishop of Canterbury relentlessly assigns papers to his church-and on subjects fit to make a county curate spill his tea. In recent years the Anglican Church has issued opinions on artificial insemination, birth control, homosexuality and prostitution. Out last week was the latest: Ought Suicide to be a Crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Concerning Suicide | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...only glancingly answered. Chevalier hints that merely working on the A-bomb has corrupted Sebastian's moral sense. Another suggestion is that he has "sold out" to a nebulous power elite and forgotten the "little people." This charge reduces itself to guilt by dissociation: Bloch's crime is not so much libeling a friend as it is ditching his left-wing pals and their causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oedipus at Los Alamos | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...educational institution which claims to support the search for truth wherever it may lie can coexist with any law that makes some form of thought a crime," it states...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Study Bids College Reject NDEA | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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