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Word: murderously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horrors of the Black Museum is in full swing. And from all the prop rooms of all the studios comes the full stock of exotic murder weapons. First a beautiful young woman with blue eyes and decolletage receives a pair of binoculars as an anonymous gift. Her roommate (brown eyes and decolletage) reports the murder promptly...

Author: By Carl PHILLIPS Jr., | Title: Horrors of the Black Museum | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...black eye, but he looked calm, perfectly at ease, rather detached. In guttural tones, he answered questions as if the answers bore no relation to his own fate. "Do you know," asked Prosecuting Counsel Maxwell Turner, leaning forward with heavy jowls jutting out, "what is the punishment for capital murder in England?" Replied Podola indifferently: "They told me in prison. Either you get off or"-he let his hand swing down from the elbow-"it will be hanging." And never once was Podola trapped into an admission of memory. Asked to explain a witness' report that he had remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Mind on Trial | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Profit on Property. Chances are only fifty-fifty, Stevens admits, that Property will get the code's approval. It is the story of two switchblade hoodlums and their step-by-step seduction of a sex-starved housewife. Murder (at the bottom of the Stevens swimming pool), sadism, and an uncommonly forgiving husband are all crammed into the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Happy Hack | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...your luck is good, King Romulus keeps saying, you can get away with anything, from the murder of a twin brother (Remus) to the rape of the Sabine women. While his ragtag followers, mostly brigands and landless peasants, build the new city of Rome on the left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Built in a Day | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Anatomy of a Murder. Lee Remick and James Stewart are slickly professional in this adaptation of 1958's most physiological bestseller; yet even they cannot compete with a cinema newcomer from Boston named Joseph N. Welch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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