Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont curiosity is traditionally impolite. Even so, Vermonters wonder why a state that ranks 48th in murder should rank so high in self-destruction (about five male suicides for each female, 3½ times as many gunshot deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist Richard S. Woodruff blames the suicide rate on three local factors: 1) two centuries of inbreeding, 2) mental depression stimulated by lonely mountains and rugged climate, 3) lack of mental health facilities. State Tax Commissioner Leonard W. Morrison adds a practical fourth cause. Says he of a state where...
Hard, Gemlike Flame. In Pensacola, Fla., M.J. Helms came to hospital with his wife, who was in serious condition from gunshot wounds, explained to police: "I told her I was crazy, but she wouldn't believe me. So, I shot...
Declared Dead. Adolf Hitler, 56, by his own hand (gunshot wound) on April 30, 1945; in Berlin; by the District Court at Berchtesgaden, West Germany...
...Hulen, 61, U.S. District Court jurist who presided at the recent trial of Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, onetime Truman Administration officials convicted last month (TIME, June 25) of conspiring to fix a Government tax case, and who was scheduled to sentence them next week; of a gunshot wound in the head while on his backyard pistol range; in St. Louis...
...world to play with, Winston Churchill created the toy world of "Laurania" in which a "dictator" is overthrown by a liberal revolution; then, as happened often enough later, the liberals find that they have set sinister forces in motion. Before they are suppressed, Laurania is rent by explosions, duels, gunshot and high-flown mayhem, all set forth in an absurdly magnificent style...