Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their coverage of Dr. John Bodkin Adams' trial on a charge of murder, five London newspapers-the Daily Mail, News Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mirror-had libel writs from Dr. Adams' lawyers...
...power-mad blacks overstep the bounds of propriety to murder, plunder, and rape the helpless whites, who finally save themselves and the South "from complete anarchy" by banning together to form the good man's friend, the Ku Klux Klan...
...joke because so many people were deceived by it. "Curiously enough," he wrote, "the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings." In following years he kept railing at the verbal beginnings of political dishonesty: Auden's talk of "necessary murder" in Spain, the Munich-era optimism of the Chamberlinian press (described in Coming Up For Air), Pig Napoleon's famous motto that "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." He kept emphasizing that there is a truth to all things, that this truth is often...
Last week Triggerman Ross, 22, was finally brought to trial in Longview (pop. 38,900) for the "murder with malice" of the young Negro. Before a jury of twelve East Texans, all whites, his lawyers argued that Ross, who had had several beers, had not been bent on murder. Said one of them: "This boy wanted to scare somebody and keep the niggers and the whites from going to school together-now that's the truth about it." He appealed to the jury to "call it a bad day and let the boy go on in life." District Attorney...
...unregenerate, a nostalgic Nazi still capable of strutting his party uniform in the midst of the Berlin airlift. As Nicky stuffs the children's ears with bogus war exploits, the camp's tensions come to a seething boil, and the novel spills over into melodrama, j murder and suicide. Novelist Vansittart, 36, is an English teacher in a London I school; his compassion and scrupulosity in distinguishing good from bad Germans are in generous contrast to the views of his late uncle, Lord Vansittart, whose implacable antipathy could be summed up in an adaptation of the elder Cato...