Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Campaigns. Marcos' harsh words were indeed in order. His pessimism reflects not only the plight that faces the Philippines in the next four years, but his own chances of alleviating it as well. In his successful campaign against President Diosdado Macapagal last November, Marcos made Filipino crime-smuggling, murder and government corruption-the main theme. Macapagal himself was above suspicion of foul play, but Marcos did not have to make personal accusations, for low-level crime and corruption were part of every Filipino's experience. Coupled to it was his own vibrant campaign style. Singing duets with...
Expunging PUNG. There was reason to worry. In November, his Politburo announced details of an abortive coup d'état that aimed at the murder of Sékou and the overthrow of the regime. Chief local plotter: Mamadou (Petit) Touré, a distant cousin of the President who was fired last year from the directorship of a national textile firm for embezzlement. Last week Little Touré was rumored to be under sentence of death, along with two former government ministers, an army battalion commander and a slew of petty traders - all members, apparently, of an outfit known...
...Historian Bruce Catton points out in a glowing foreword, the authors have also given a good example of what the raw material of history looks like, for they offer both the pertinent and the bogus. They give the conflicting eyewitness accounts of the President's murder and the wild rumors that swept Washington, as well as a factual narrative of the events before and after his death. There are not only pictures of Booth's derringer, the chair Lincoln sat in, the clothes he wore; there are also spurious photographs of Lincoln in death and of mawkish funeral...
...Mexico, they went roaring across the border like a platoon of panthers. Unhappily, the Texas Devils, as the Mexicans called them, were so blind-crazy for blood that they often made more enemies than they killed. In Mexico City, for instance, when a Mexican made so bold as to murder a Ranger, the victim's friends went on a shooting spree that in one day deposited 80 corpses on the streets of the conquered capital...
...Brooklyn last March, two young thugs named Kazle Anthony and Stephen Batten forced three butchers into a walk-in icebox, robbed them of $3,500, shot each of them in the head twice, and finished them off with meat cleavers. After a jury convicted them of first-degree murder, Justice David L. Malbin called the killers' crime "one of the most atrocious in this country...