Word: delicto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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such as rape, suicide, murder or flagrante delicto . . . While maturer minds bad gered the survivors ... I scurried through bedrooms, poked noiselessly into closets, trunks and bureau drawers, and, the coveted photograph under my coat, bolted for the street." How to Be Happy. Armored Ben's first prose efforts took the form of phony news stories ("Tales of lawsuits no court had ever seen, involving names no city directory had ever known...
...Runaway Puritan." After catching her in flagrante delicto in the doll house, Stephen Monk walks out on his wife Jane and into an oncoming truck. While he convalesces at the home of his Quaker foster-aunt outside Philadelphia, his whole life flashbacks before his eyes...
...Once, when the Sultan sent male servants to flog some women for "a peccadillo," the men "were conquered by their charms and, tossing aside the implements of torment, subjected the pretty victims to a more tender treatment." The monarch found them in flagrante delicto; the women were whipped while the Sultan laughed at their screams, then thrown into foul cells, where they were kept on starvation rations. The men were also whipped and then chained to the walls of their cells. All twelve were released when Ben Youssef was deposed as Sultan. Previous victims of similar punishments died in their...
...French court had just decided that, although Duclos had been arrested during the Communist Ridgway riots on May 28 in a car fitted out with blackjack, loaded pistol and those two famous eating squabs (TIME, June 16), he was not in flagrante delicto (caught in the act), and was therefore entitled to parliamentary immunity as a member of the National Assembly. The five-man Paris appeals court (from whose decision there is no appeal) is headed by President Paul Didier, member of the Communist-backed "Peace Partisans...
...gift of a friend-for stewing with fresh green peas. She didn't explain what use was to be made of the short-wave radio, the rubber-covered truncheon or the loaded automatic also found in the car. Next day, France's top Communist,* caught flagrante delicto, was led before a justice of the peace and held for "attempt against the security of the state" (maximum but unlikely penalty: Devil's Island). Holding his handcuffs aloft, Duclos told reporters: "There's democracy for you, messieurs; admire it!" More than 700 other rioters were arrested that same...