Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keen. In Memphis, Woodrow Beamer, on the wanted list for attempted murder, was arrested when he tried to get a driver's license in the police identification bureau...
...Navy hospital not long ago a 31-year-old chief petty officer suddenly broke off a casual conversation with a nine-year-old girl, grabbed the child by the throat, choked her and held her under water in a nearby tub until she was dead. Charged with murder, he at first denied the crime with such apparent sincerity that he fooled a lie detector. Later, remorseful, he confessed, but insisted that he could not remember the beginning of the attack, had just "suddenly discovered himself" strangling the girl...
...Psychiatrist Satten and his Topeka research team, it seemed that the murderous petty officer-listed in their records as "Thomas"-had temporarily and partially lost consciousness and suffered a kind of personality detachment. This jibed with Thomas' own statement: "I knew I was doing it, but it didn't seem like me. It was like watching myself doing it." In three other cases of sudden and apparently motiveless murder, the Topeka researchers got the same story of men blacking out and then seeming to be spectators at their own crimes...
...judicial murder of Socrates was a mirror of the city-states' violent dealings with each other. Finally, the Hellenes united against the Persians, and even this alliance (the Confederacy of Delos, founded in 478 B.C.) was characteristically betrayed when the Athenians rifled the common treasury. This act offers Historian Toynbee an interesting and ironic sidelight. The Athenians used the funds to stave off mass unemployment by building public works. Thus the monuments that crown the Acropolis testifying to the glory that was Greece are actually the result of a kind of grandiose PWA project subsidized with stolen funds...
Compulsion. Despite some debatable philosophy and psychiatry, Meyer Levin's casebook on the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder makes taut, adult melodrama...