Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning ("Get outa here") to the woman before he fired, whereupon Girard weakened his own case and astonished the courtroom by denying it. "These discrepancies baffle me," said Judge Kawachi in a genial interim verdict at week's end, "but so far there is no evidence of deliberate murder...
What Money Buys. Last week Chile's supreme court granted asylum to him and four of his friends on the ground that the offenses they were charged with were political. But it balked at Greyshirt Kelly, ruled that the charges of murder, robbery and blackmail against Kelly were both well-founded and nonpolitical; Kelly was ordered returned to Argentina...
That night amazed police described the weapon that had brought Marcel Leopold low: a hollow dart, built along the lines of a two-stage rocket, which was shot from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like...
...Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway between the two stages. "Renounce your desire to see Rome, my friend; what you seek there is not to be found any longer," wrote the aristocratic German theologian Ulrich von Hutten: "You may live from plunder, commit murder and sacrilege . . . but if you do but bring money to Rome, you are a most respectable person. Virtue and heavenly blessings are sold here; you may even buy the privilege of sinning in future...
...Hungarian delegates all spread the same line concerning the revolt. They claimed that Hungary had been a land of peace and happiness before the revolt, but that spies were sent in from the West as instigators and that "weapons of murder" were shipped in by balloons...