Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prague, evidence at a murder trial purportedly revealed that the body of Jan Masaryk had been the object of a futile kidnap attempt, presumably to find out just what had really caused his death...
...debaters of the Oxford Union. To eke out his meager chaplaincy allotment he began to produce smoothly written detective novels-a total of six in ten years. (He was once asked if the title page of his Bible would refer to him as "Ronald Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...
Leibowitz' advice on tactics so impressed Calvert Magruder, chief judge of the U.S. Circuit, Court of Appeals for the first circuit, who was presiding at the meeting, that he said, "If I were ever on trial for murder or rape, I would try to get Leibowitz as my attorney...
...Americans Out." Two days later, entering Yosu, the town where the revolt began, the government troops were much better behaved. The Communists' occupation of Yosu revealed the pattern they would like to impose on all South Korea. After arrest and murder of police and loyal leaders, the rebels took over all communications, banks, schools and food distribution. They established a "People's Committee" as the new government. The "People's Committee" announced: "Our two-point program: 1) to oppose, to the death the killing of our brothers, and 2) to get the Americans out of here...
...more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall. So is that of Robert Newton, a sinister cockney witness to the murder, who finally gets done in with a pair of scissors...