Word: delicto
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Flagrante Delicto. These were only warmups for the arrival in Paris of General Matthew Ridgway to take over command of the NATO forces from Dwight Eisenhower. On the day of Ridgway's arrival, Paris blossomed like a dandelion field with hostile messages: "Ridgway go home," "Ridgway, the microbial killer." There was a small riot at Aix-en-Province, a bigger one at Bordeaux; the biggest of all was set for Paris' Place de la Republique, despite a specific ban by the Ministry of the Interior...
Warden King, a onetime insurance salesman who works part time for the Biological Survey at $3.50 per day, proceeded to expound the law. Caught flagrante delicto, flustered Mr. Justice Van Devanter cried: "Indeed, I'm sorry. I assure you that I'm heartily in favor of anything that will help conserve ducks, and I'll stop at the post office on my way back and buy the stamp...
...those plots where the penniless heroine and her baby are not received socially. After being thrown off respectable people's door steps three score times and ten she finally meets the man with whom she was in virtute delicto. He is a minister. They marry...