Word: rapes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Undoubtedly later demonstrations were touched off by Communists, using as provocation the alleged rape (by two U.S. Marines) of a Chinese student in Peiping. This episode touched one important part of the problem...
Flowers & Prayers. The French looked first. A few months after they had showered their U.S. liberators with flowers, they were praying for them to go home. Germans had reason to be grateful for the simple, human, unofficial compassion of thousands of G.I.s; but there had been rape, widespread looting and disorderliness. What was worse, most Europeans got the impression from extensive U.S. Army black marketing that most Americans will do anything for money. Nor could the billeting of U.S. officers' families in comfortable houses amidst a ruined people (quite justified) fail to cause ill will. The stare with which...
Readers of Courts Day by Day find no breathless accounts of spectacular murders, shocking rape cases, big-time robberies. Jones has no front-page yearnings, plugs only one beat: the London police courts with their unvarying morning catch of drunks, prostitutes, petty thieves and disturbers of the public peace. Magistrates and constables are often surprised to find vicious repeaters showing up as misguided, well-meaning little folk, but they read his column devotedly. He frequently gives judges, lawyers, police and wrongdoers the same indiscriminate, kindly treatment in mellow pieces that read like lesser Dickens with a shot of O. Henry...
...Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict libel laws. But its deadpan, detailed coverage of trials-bigamy, rape, murder, adultery-gives Britons a hundred vicarious thrills a week...
Penalties for murder and rape in Soviet Russia rarely exceed ten years' imprisonment, because personal crimes are considered there as mere "hangovers from a bourgeois past," John Hazard, professor of Law at Columbia University's Russian Institute and U. S. Government adviser, declared yesterday at the Law School Forum in Langdell Court...