Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST ONE LEFT, by John D. MacDonald. Murder at sea, mayhem on land, and skulduggery everywhere in this tautly told story by one of America's masters of suspense...
Though police trace the mayhem back to the McLaughlin-McLean contretemps-a falling-out romantically attributed to a slur on one mug's moll-they theorize that other motives have since arisen. Many of the victims made their living as loan sharks. This is big, if disorganized, business in Boston's lower crust. The "vigorish," or profit, is estimated at $1,000,000 a week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just...
Bloody Beef. Man is a grisly fact to Bacon's eye. With surrealistic swiftness, he slaughters the human form; yet the smithereens seem to scream for recognition. Despite the mayhem he commits with his brushes and his stylistic isolation, he is today considered Britain's greatest living painter. In a recent poll by France's Connaissance des Arts, he ranked fifth among the world's ten favorite living artists. His works are selling for prices...
...WRONG BOX. Survival of the fittest-Victorian style-leads members of a genteel British family to mayhem, murder and related shenanigans in an all-out effort to inherit a vast fortune...
Belated Arrests. Nor did the mayhem end when Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson, ignoring protests of several local officials, sent in 150 state troopers. Next day, a number of troopers studiously read newspapers a block away while white rowdies broke windows of four cars carrying Negro youngsters to school, chased and beat the occupants. As tension mounted, the Federal Government mercifully stepped in. At Oxford, Miss., U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton issued a restraining order warning Grenada officials to protect the Negro children or face federal contempt charges. With that, the state troopers surrounded the schools to protect Negro students, thereby...