Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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We reject the view that ascribes the April and May disturbances primarily to a conspiracy of student revolutionaries. That demonology is no less false than the native radical doctrine that attributes all wars, racial injustices, and poverty to the machinations of a capitalist and militarist "Establishment." Student revolutionists within SDS...
Ironically, Smith's fundamental argument-that he was not accorded his constitutional rights to counsel and to silence-would today suffice to get any other suspect a new trial. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions on Escobedo and Miranda deal favorably with situations like Smith's. But those landmark...
That sounds good. Unfortunately, Surplus Commodities has several built-in problems, both in concept and execution. Poor families learned quickly that there was no way to get enough commodities to feed the family; the supply of free food usually lasts ten or twelve days into the month. But that was...
Capricious Execution. Besides money, Huie makes use of a fierce persistence and an equally intense passion for the underdog. He is an aggressive, blunt-spoken reporter who makes it clear that no one is going to put anything over on him. When he does business with the sordid characters who...
It took five years of digging, but he finally unearthed the details in the case of the only U.S. serviceman executed for desertion in World War II. His book, The Execution of Private Slovik, was a fascinating account of how the military capriciously singled out this private, among thousands of...