Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶As the new week began, the Chicago South Shore and South Bend's westbound No. 26 ploughed into a busload of section hands at the Andry crossing, 20 miles from South Bend, killing 13, injuring 16.
The pattern was as old as the South. Just before 5 a.m. the armed men arrived at the jail in Pickens (pop. 2,866). Shotguns leveled, they demanded 25-year-old Negro Willie Earle, suspected of robbing and killing a Greenville taxi driver. An hour and 45 minutes later, the...
One of Dr. Warren's sentences suggested the full horror perhaps better than anything else: "I'm not so worried about the killing of 50 to 75 million people as I am about the wiping out of resources." Dr. Warren is not callous or unkind. (His precautions at...
* Four days after installation of the ''foolproof" traffic control system was proudly announced to the press last winter, it failed to function, sent a freight head-on into a passenger train, killing a fireman. The Rio Grande has had no other fatality since McCarthy took over.
Los Angeles police searched for the person who had killed black-haired Elizabeth Short, then defiled and butchered her body and dumped it in a vacant lot. Friends had nicknamed her the "Black Dahlia," which made the crime more piquant. Portland, Ore. was having a crime wave. Taxi drivers, tired...