Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That the Indianapolis torture-murder [May 6] was described in agonizing detail, and that I, and millions of others, ate up every gory word, attests to the latent sado-masochism in all of us: everyone is a latent Mrs. Baniszewski, who can experience pleasure in giving pain, or a Sylvia Likens, who can enjoy being burned, beaten and humiliated...
...jury is a group of Godfearing people who will be able to overlook the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" and use, as a basis for their verdict, "An eye for an eye," and then punish these creatures accordingly. May I be forgiven for my evil thoughts of wanting a murder...
Wilson's murder, an unsettling echo of labor's internecine wars in the '30s, came as a grisly epilogue. His career had been built on his crusading efforts to prove that the union's entrenched leadership had for years been a party to "sweetheart" contracts and other schemes to hold down rank-and-file wages in exchange for cumshaw from grateful contractors...
...Wreaths. Last week San Francisco police arrested five men charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Two were painting contractors who had been administrators of a $500,000 union-employer welfare fund; the third was the fund's accountant; another was a contractors' association official, and the fifth a San Francisco saloonkeeper. The welfare fund has been under federal investigation ever since several union members, including Wilson, began questioning its management...
...town where Furber holds forth as the local yack-in-the-pulpit. "Both of Omensetter's hands reached for his hand, enclosing it like a worm in a fruit." Obsessed with envy, Furber spreads lies about Omensetter and even tries to persuade the townspeople that he has committed murder. In the end the reverend repents his persecution, but too late to preserve his reason, which drowns in a loud orange effluvium of emotion...