Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down. He came back up right away and he hit me with this blackjack. I've got a knot the size of a goose egg on my head." That was Idaho's Senator Len B. Jordan reporting a personal encounter with the law-and-order issue in crime-plagued Washington, D.C. The 70-year-old legislator was on his way to a Senate prayer breakfast when he was accosted by a burly young thug in the elevator of his apartment building. The youth demanded Jordan's wallet and watch, but the crusty Republican was in the mood...
...seemed an odd place to hold a trial, but what was the judge to do when the defense vigorously contended that his client's guilt or innocence could only be properly assessed at the scene of the alleged crime? So off they trooped -judge, jury, counsel, bailiff and all -to Sacramento's Pink Pussy Kat Tavern, where Go-Go Dancer Susanne Haines, charged with indecent exposure, performed eight numbers. For four of them, she wore Exhibit J, a pair of transparent red panties; in the remaining four, she wore only her gold sandals for the full topless-bottomless...
...Hampton area suffers from all the same plight of many urban areas. With tens of thousands of sailors in bars and tattoo parlors, crime in the streets and heroin are major problems...
Although Nixon's offensive sounds good to anti-drug, anti-crime congressmen, the amount of actual controlling it accomplishes is highly questionable. One Mexican official said, "It's like trying to cure cancer with an aspirin. Drugs are a worldwide problem and stopping up a few borders is not going to stop...
...rebuffs him. Moronao is furious and showers abuse on the unsuspecting and inoffensive Hangan. Pushed beyond sense and patience, Hangan draws his sword and strikes at Moronao. But he is in the sacred precincts of the shogun's palace, where even to draw a sword is a crime. The shogun orders Hangan to commit harakiri. He does so, but not before his chief retainer swears to avenge his cruel death. That is what the next seven acts are about, making Hamlet seem like a speed demon in the revenge department...