Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in Nyasaland's commercial center of Blantyre, both men were on trial for murder. Elard's ready admission of the killing did not make things any easier for Chief Justice Sir Edgar Unsworth. For Elard insisted that he was not guilty because he was a crocodile at the time. Sir Edgar called in the government's psychiatrist to test Elard's sanity. He was judged not insane, but the psychiatrist added, "We must admit we are dealing with a mentality completely foreign to us." Sir Edgar turned to the court assessors-three tribal elders...
...Edgar was faced with another classic clash of white man's rules with deep-rooted African beliefs. Since the two could not be resolved, Sir Edgar was forced to make his decision on the basis of social patterns he could understand. Ignoring the elders' testimony, he sentenced both men to be hanged...
...orders are running at their heaviest rate in more than a year. To meet the new demand, Youngstown Sheet & Tube relit three ironmaking blast furnaces and nine steelmaking open hearths. Chicago's Inland Steel recalled 1,500 workers from long layoffs. Outside Pittsburgh, U.S. Steel reopened its obsolescent Edgar Thomson Works, usually one of the last to resume production during a pickup...
...alone they pluck six plums off Sellers' thumb, and by week's end the poor punk is driven to a desperate remedy: set a cop to catch a cop. Unfortunately, Inspector Fred ("Nosy") Parker (Lionel Jeffries), who qualifies handily as the stupidest flatfoot seen on screen since Edgar Kennedy turned in his badge, couldn't catch a hangnail in a square mile of linsey-woolsey...
...EDGAR SHOOK...