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Word: killingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corpses during this phase of his career. He never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed to fall out the window and kill himself before Brooklyn Prosecutor Bill O'Dwyer saw fit to bring Al to trial Al disappeared and joined the Army (he trained soldiers as longshoremen during the war), and for "clerical reasons," the "wanted" card with Al's name was removed from the files of the New York Police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Joseph C. Steyskal, the ex-Divinity School student who allegedly threatened to kill President Pusey, was acquitted of sending threatening letters through the mails yesterday in Federal District Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steyskal Acquitted | 11/1/1957 | See Source »

...Having performed a new work once." wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's able music critic, Alfred Frankenstein, "conductors disown it for good. Hence arises an infuriating paradox: the best way to kill a modern piece is to preside over its premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wanted: Repetitions | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

COKE-IN-CANS will soon be test-marketed after several false starts. Big problem was to perfect a can liner that would not kill Coke flavor; now that can companies have apparently licked problem, Coca-Cola will try out idea in Gary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIMECLOCK, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...secret of the fact that she had fans of her own whom she was glad to oblige ("There is no doubt, in some people's minds, as to my super bitchery"). They hated each other for their infidelities: "It seems extraordinary to me now that we did not kill each other outright; we certainly got dangerously near to it." But it was only with Dylan dead and buried in his Welsh village of Laugharne ("this Godforsaken, Dylan-shared, vanishing dip in the hills") that Caitlin was possessed by the enormity of her loss, and wanted "to ferret down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two of a Kind | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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