Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birmingham courtroom last week: Bart A. Floyd, 31, second Ku Klux Klansman to stand trial for castrating a Negro in a deserted Alabama shack last September. The verdict: guilty of mayhem. The sentence, the same administered a fortnight earlier to one of Floyd's partners in crime: 20 years' imprisonment, the maximum sentence under Alabama law. "The sentence," said the Alabama-born Judge King, "is not nearly commensurate with the crime. You have disrupted the friendly relations between the races. You have drawn the attention of the entire world. This is the most cowardly, atrocious and diabolical crime...
...Daily Princetonian telephoned the CRIMSON last night and asked if the Crime had published the parodies. The Princetonian spokesman noted, "It was kind of amusing...
...every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public without them...
...worrying, ailing, ne'er-do-well full of fancied grievances against all officialdom; his grudge was a private one, unconnected with the seething political turmoil of the Middle East. "I know," Ben-Gurion wrote his parents, "that you regret, as does all Israel, the dastardly and foolish crime your son perpetrated. But you are not to blame. You are living in Israel, where justice reigns...
...state's impotence, Hocking insists, is increasingly obvious. It cannot alone effectively deal with crime, for "only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt...