Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Figures Talk. The logical man moved into office 31 years and five Administrations later. He is Rowland Roberts Hughes, 59, President Eisenhower's Director of the Budget. Dawes, dead these five years, would have been delighted to know that Hughes, who is about as far a cry from Hell 'n' Maria as a man can be, loves the job. Rowland Hughes came to Washington in 1953, a political innocent. A conscientious Christian Scientist since boyhood, he has never been known to raise his voice or slap a back-despite the swashbuckling appearance of an eyepatch that covers...
While O'Keefe told his story, the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation rounded up Tony Pino and five other members of the gang (two, including O'Keefe, were already in jail, one was dead of natural causes, and the remaining two were still at large). O'Keefe's story was no surprise to the FBI and police. For five years they have been frustratingly familiar with many of the details of the crime, and all but one of the eleven gang members (Fugitive James Ignatius Flaherty, 44, a bartender, burglar and escape artist) have...
...searchers located the bodies of the other four. The land party reached the riverbank at week's end, found that four had died of spear wounds-and one of machete slashes. Around the shaft of one spear were wrapped a few pages torn from a Bible. The dead were identified, then buried where they lay. Ecuador's government sent sympathy and regrets to the U.S. ambassador, but regarded any attempt to find the Auca murderers as impractical. Back in Milwaukee, McCully's father humbly accepted his son's death. "God makes no mistakes," he said...
...living on the streets, and the picture tells how his worth overcame his birth. Put to the pits by a greedy master (Jeff Richards), Wildfire fights his way to the championship of the Bowery before he is overmatched with a bigger dog, and left on the floor half dead. A kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips his haughty old man at the big dog show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female...
...sick with fright. He was half nude, his greenish tongue stuck out from an open mouth and he smelled very bad. As I tried to turn away, father took me by the hand and ordered me to 'keep my eyes open.' Father forced me to approach the dead man and to touch his cold foot. Tremblingly I obeyed. Then father said: 'This man died for freedom.' " 33,333 Lines. Nikos grew up to study law in Athens and philosophy in Paris. Returning to Greece in 1914, he published the first of his nine novels...