Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was the second such killing in five months at Boonville and it stung indignant Missourians to action. A state senator demanded an investigation; Boonville's residents held a mass meeting.
Superintendent John C. Tindall, who had taken over after the first killing, made no excuses. He had done his best to clean up the filth, weed out the crooked, underpaid staffers, refurbish inadequate and worn-out equipment. But he could do no more in the face of apathetic, economy-minded...
During 1947, cinemaddicts watched him as a gentle back-country father in The Yearling, as a lady-killing hunter in The Macomber Affair, as Lascivious Lewt in Duel in the Sun, and as the crusading journalist in Gentleman's Agreement-performances which established him as an actor of solidity...
As a proper scientist should, Dr. Sonneborn spoke modestly of his achievement. But it is none the less notable: he had given his sensitive paramecia an acquired characteristic (the killing ability) which they transmitted by heredity to their offspring. Classical genetics has been saying firmly that it just cannot be...
The most important events in Johnny Shawnessy's life are accompanied and paralleled by the events of the Civil War period. His marriage to Susanna takes place at the time of John Brown's execution. Their child is born on the night after the cannonade against Fort Sumter...