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Word: killers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murderer Orville Turley, 54, a paretic, and Kidnaper Richard Heilman, 24, were trapped in a trailer. "Come on in and get us," snarled Turley. A blast of shots killed him, wounded Heilman. Killer A. B. Tolley, 21, was shot and captured after a wild exchange of gunfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Trouble in Little Siberia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...paramecium, to rate as a killer, has to contain at least 200 particles of kappa. If it has less, it is a sensitive, and can be destroyed by killers with plenty of kappa. Dr. Sonneborn discovered that sensitive paramecia can be turned into killers at will. He put sensitive paramecia into a solution of mashed killer paramecia. Half of the sensitives absorbed kappa particles, which turned them into killers. Their descendants were killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets & Paramecia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Fool." Except for his grim mouth, Ryukichi Tanaka, a fat little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Greatest Trial | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Wallace tried to get grand jury indictments against the known killers. He called a meeting at the courthouse, attended by 75 or 100 citizens, all of whom were afraid to testify. Unexpectedly, a letter came from William H. ("Billy the Kid") Bonney, offering to talk: he had seen Murphy partisans kill Tunstall's successor. Wallace promised Billy immunity, agreed to meet him at 9 p.m. at the home of a Tunstall man. "The door swung slowly open, and there stood the Kid, a Winchester in his right hand and a revolver in his left. He was a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come Back a Man | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Daves has hamstrung his movie by injecting a series of truly fascinating coincidences into the plot. Lauren Bacall just happens to be near San Quentin when Bogy escapes, a blackmailer just happens to pick him up in a car, thereby wasting thirty minutes of story time, and the killer just happens to cheat justice by carelessly stumbling out a twenty-five story window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/11/1947 | See Source »

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