Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement. The killers had murdered coolly, systematically. They had bound their victims hand and foot with nylon cord, gagged Nancy with a scarf and the others with two-inch-wide adhesive tape. Then, one by one, they had slaughtered the Clutters, shooting each in the face with a shotgun held a few inches away. Before or after shooting Herbert Clutter, the murderers had cut Clutter's throat. Whatever terrible rage seethed inside them, the killers had kept their twisted wits; they had ripped the house's two telephones from their wall jacks, and when they departed took with...
...Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...
...TESTA, 73, born to a wealthy family in Italy's Bergamo Province, where John XXIII was a peasant boy, and close friend of the present Pope since they were fellow students in Rome. Like John, he has spent most of his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, having held posts in Austria, Germany, Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Switzerland...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27--A Marine guard at the U.S. consulate in Bombay, India, was reported kidnaped and held for six hours today by the staff of the Chinese Communist consulate there...
...authority on the philosophy of education, Sheffler will publish next year a study of "The Language of Education." Author of "Philosophy and Education," he has been a member of the Faculty since 1952. During 1958-59, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship...