Word: heinous
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...call for law-and-order. They don't, in fact, have enough time to espouse politics or ideology of any stripe. They're not even interested in plot or drama, only in speed and thump. Their stories are alibis for sensationalistic action, and they re-enact the most heinous crimes out of love for the box office. These films are really B pictures, camouflaged with a smear of realism, padded with car chases and gadgetry to hold their audiences...
...equal. Any aggression, even an argument, is a criminal act. People can only ingest something called E-diet, so insubstantial that men no longer sweat, urinate or defecate. Even so, they kill certain microscopic organisms simply by breathing. The command for general suicide goes out so that "the heinous crimes of murder and pollution committed by our race may in some small way find redress...
...submit for certification a world record set by an N.C.A.A. runner. Though the authorities generally wink at under-the-table gratuities of various kinds, the N.C.A.A. once suspended Oregon State's Gary Freeman from the varsity basketball team for violating a rule about offseason play. Freeman's heinous crime: on a trip home to Boise, Idaho, he returned to his high school to play in a seniors v. alumni game in which no score was kept and the admission was all of 250. Not to be outdone, the A.A.U. once strongly chastised a Fort Lauderdale swimmer named Jamie...
...capricious way death penalties have been meted out, Nixon laid down a meticulously detailed procedure. A jury would first decide guilt or innocence; then at a subsequent hearing, a judge and jury would consider whether there had been any mitigating circumstances or whether the crime had been particularly heinous. Where the jury concluded that the crime had been especially serious and there had been no mitigating factors, death would be mandatory. It is not certain, however, that the Supreme Court would go along since prosecutors, jurors and the President would all continue to have discretion on whether to consider reduced...
Islanders have grown used to grumbling about a rise in the crime rate and the bands of youths that sometimes wander round nearby Christiansted at night. But they were stunned by what Governor Melvin Evans called "the most heinous crime I can recall." Some tourists wondered whether the real motive for the murders might have been political or racial; all the gunmen were black, apparently, and seven of the eight victims were white. But police believed that the crime was merely a particularly vicious case of armed robbery. At week's end, the police arrested...