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Word: maniacs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to be getting too ambitious. After his release last year, Barbot launched a campaign of terror against his old mentor. To Haitians, it was like a choice between a scorpion and a tarantula: "What would you do with a killer who delivered the country of a homicidal maniac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: The Living Dead | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...bells so ponderous that his arms get stretched to floor-length; that night in bed, when his sock-clad feet poke out of the bottom of the covers, a pair of hands reaches out alongside to give them a sleepy scratch. But Lewis as the alter-ego maniac Buddy Love is a maudlin letdown. Starlet Stevens best sums up the trouble: "Just being one person is more than enough for any human being to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Half Laugh | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...course, she gets her killer. What's more, she almost gets Robert Morley, a member of the local hunt who admires her seat and suggests that she "keep her saddle" at his house. The heroine says neigh, and at the fade, after calmly collaring a maniac with a homicidal hatpin, she prissily explains why she cannot marry him: "My dear man, I do not approve of blood sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rutherford Rides Again | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...turned the island into a bordello, a dump and a gambling casino for over half a century; but it was Dr. bearded maniac who imposed an anti-American character on that pure little revolution...

Author: By Fred Gardner, | Title: Residue Of Hatred In Havana | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Shade himself cannot be asked about his intentions, because he is dead-shot by Gradus, a Zemblan assassin who was aiming at the exile king (the murderer claimed to be merely an escaped maniac named Jack Grey, and was believed by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Russian Box Trick | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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