Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perpetrated such a frightful crime? After a night of questioning, the police got the answer from the criminal himself-the frustrated surgeon-turned-priest, who had performed his first operation on the dead body of his mistress. "I offered Régine absolution before I killed her," said the Abbé Desnoyers...
...using the Suppression of Communism Act as their excuse, the special security police charged with imposing Strydom's will on his country swooped down on scores of homes throughout the cities of South Africa and arrested 140 people: clergymen, trade unionists, doctors, lawyers and private citizens. The one "crime" they had in common was bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of the Strydom regime...
Died. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 63, round-faced, tempestuous champion of India's 60 million untouchables and principal author of India's constitution (adopted in 1949), which makes discrimination against untouchables a crime; in New Delhi. Himself an untouchable (and thus so repugnant to some high-caste Hindus that his shadow was considered polluting), Dr. Ambedkar warred with Gandhi over the Mahatma's gradualism in righting caste discrimination, entered Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as Minister of Law in 1947, resigned four years later in protest over delay in anti-caste legislation. Two months...
...statute giving federal authorities the power to "protect foreigners against mob violence, and making participation in such violence a federal crime...
Questioned about his crime, Wagner said, "It was just to be the one robbery and no more. I felt guilty because my parents were going to send me to this very expensive college, and I knew they couldn't afford it and would have to make sacrifices...