Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME fails in its duty as a dispassionate narrator of current affairs when it registers more preoccupation with tabloidish crime and divorce stories than with the efforts of a thinking minority to awaken the nation to the vital need for good schools and good teachers...
...Holmes's "Our nation stands dis graced before the world" reminds me of "the nine tailors of Tooley Street." He covers too much territory, and his own language is too atomic. A few more nouns like atrocity, outrage, perpetrator, crime, and adjectives such as hideous, disgraced, monstrous dropped from Dr. Holmes's lingual superbomber, would make us all want to crawl into holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate...
...Crime Underpays. In Boston, Michale Kostecki lost his piano to ambitious burglars who lowered it three flights, moved it to a secondhand store, sold...
...Crime, as reported here & there...
...American had probed beneath surface technicalities. To him, the violation of international treaties was an aggravating circumstance; the German invasion of Poland would have been a crime without it?. German-Polish non-aggression pact. The treaties' existence was important to Jackson chiefly as a symptom that the world's conscience had begun to view aggression and war as evils that must be punished. Said he: "Plain people ... revolted at such fictions [as war's legality] and legalisms so contrary to ethical principles, and demanded checks on war immunity...