Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford University, several participants advocated registration of all guns-if only, said one, to "see if this reduces crime or death rates." Other preventive measures were linked to the predictability of assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity...
...Smell of Death. To be sure, Betio has become the Broadway of Tarawa. A dance hall teems with devotees of the newly discovered twist. Outdoor movies attract audiences of hundreds each evening (10? to sit on the ground, 20? upstairs). But blockhouses and rusting gun barrels still pock the landscape, and laborers regularly unearth skeletons that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every...
...Soviet leaders are not so naive as to expect the current glorification campaign to popularize the KGB with the Russian people. The purpose of the exercise is rather to raise the morale of the KGB, which employs some 750,000 people. They were naturally discouraged after Stalin's death when their power was sharply reduced, and most of the vast slave-labor camps they had manned for 25 years were disbanded. But there is much hope for the future, Abel believes, because the young people he now sees entering the KGB are displaying "exceptional stubbornness and persistence in learning...
Panaghoulis himself was of little help to the defense. He boasted of his plan to destroy Premier George Papadopoulos' car, and he proudly pleaded guilty to the charges of desertion and sedition -the two counts bearing a possible death sentence. "Condemn me to death," he challenged the court. "For me, the best swan song is the death rattle before the firing squad of a tyranny...
...calculated to win sympathy from senior officers. Neither, for that matter, is an attempt to blow up the nation's Premier and overthrow the government by armed rebellion. Thus when Alexandros Panaghoulis stood before Judge Panayotis Voughas in Athens Special Military Court, it seemed hardly surprising that the death sentence was pronounced. Greece's ruling colonels were proud of the fact that there had been no executions under the 19-month-old regime, but in this case there seemed ample reason for breaking precedent...