Word: deeded
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...duchess is a Lady Macbeth in mink who fears that a scandal will stall her husband's diplomatic career and persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that they add up to $10,000-blackmail...
...1950s who warned that the next generation would turn out spineless and grey-flannel-souled. Henry David Thoreau would have felt at home with the young of the 60's, they are as appalled as he was at the thought of leading "lives of quiet desperation." In deed, for the future, the generation now in command can take solace from its offspring's determination to do better...
...deed to do all over again, would he attempt it? "Yes! And how!" bellowed Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 79, the man who murdered czarist Russia's lecherous holy man Rasputin. Brave talk. The prince was nearly dead on his feet after he had dispatched the wild monk by feeding him enough cyanide to kill a regiment of Cossacks, blasting him with a revolver, beating him with a rubber truncheon, and dumping him into the Neva River. Now, 50 years after the murder, the prince will have the pleasure of watching someone else do the job. His recent book...
...eliminate Pele (pronounced Pehleh), the Babe Ruth of soccer, a man who dribbles as daintily as a woman knits and then with a kick that could fell a rhino drives the ball into the net so fast the eye cannot follow it. Portugal finally does the dirty deed with a ferocious mousetrap: the man in front of Pele kicks his knee at the same instant the man behind him kicks his ankle. He goes down like a speared panther, and the focus shifts to Eusebio, the green-skinned, inscrutable Portuguese superstar...
...from an insane asylum and must return. When the stranger pulls a knife, Thompson kills him. The rest of the play shows Thompson, acquitted by a jury, bleakly, desperately dragging his sickly wife (Olivia de Havilland) from one neighbor's house to another to defend himself and his deed. Then he blows his brains...