Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarkable efforts of Curtis Sliwa and "the Magnificent 13" [May 7] who volunteer their time and energy to divert subway crime should be commended. I hope I never need them, but I would really like to meet them next time I ride the subways...
Chafin said yesterday he selected the two women because they "were among the best qualified of the total complement of candidates." Chafin added there is a need for woman-to-woman contact in the University community and that the department will be able to set up s Sensitive Crime Unit to deal with sexually related criminal offenses...
...Clemenson in "The Great Train Robbery." His face bulging and mind oozing, the inspector explicated the crime. "When you speak of train robbery, I want to emphasize that this involved no loss of train, merely its contents. We haven't lost one since the blizzard of 1946, when we misplaced a small one." Well, then, who could have perpetrated the crime? Clemenson leans forward ominously, wrinkles his brow, and emits his conclusive response. "We believe this to be the work of thieves." Oh, so thieves are responsible? "Oh, good heavens, no! I believe the thieves are irresponsible...
...Crime and Human Nature," R. J. Herrnstein and James Q. Wilson...
...executives, one was so pleased that he murmured, "This is great stuff.") The network executives changed their minds a month later after a nine-year-old girl was raped with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach and her parents filed suit against the company for inciting the crime. Cowan's explanation of "the apparent nexus between television and antisocial conduct" is too shallow-- he doesn't bother to talk about the psychological (and more interesting) aspects, choosing instead to get lost in the legalese of Congressional reports. Later, he quotes a writer who wanted to pen the teleplay...