Word: deed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbit had sold the pistol to a hoodlum named John ("Chappy") Mazziotta. The police theory of Schuster's murder was that if Mazziotta killed him, it was out of sheer spite, because Chappy's plans to blackmail Willie Sutton were spoiled by Schuster's good deed. The police, though bright enough to turn this up, were not bright enough to find Mazziotta, despite 100,000 "wanted" posters and the efforts of some 25 city detectives assigned to the Full-time job of looking...
...Next month the wreckers will start tearing down the 250-year-old landmark and bulldozers will begin digging basements for the 77 new dwellings that will rise up on the farm. By next spring there will be nothing left of the Shallcross-Roberts farm but the ornate original deed bearing the bold signature William Penn...
...theory behind the judge's sentences is a simple one. Except for obvious criminals, says he, most young people "have simply gone astray and must get another chance. They must perform some good deed related to the bad." Before each trial, Holzschuh tries to get to know the defendant. He makes the accused talk about his interests, asks him about the books he reads. Then, when the judge has heard the case, he makes the punishment fit the crime. Among the cases he has handled...
...them their heads. By nightfall the baying hounds had reached a point six miles from the Jordan border. "Investigations are not complete, and this case cannot be prejudged," said a U.S. officer of the Armistice Command. But the trail was proof enough for Israel's government that the deed had been done by Arabs from Jordan. Israel officials summoned the U.N.'s truce-supervision chief, Major General Vagn Bennike, demanded "drastic measures," and insisted, "You must bring the Jordan government to task...
...attention whatever. He is, in the language of book reviewers, a "slick man," a contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial." The good always wins, the boy always gets the girl, and they are married in a nice church ceremony-just after getting the deed to a nice piece of real estate-while a kindly old homespun philosopher stands snapping his galluses in the background...