Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office which found that: 1) the crime was unpremeditated; 2) Hicswa's mentality was sufficiently low to justify clemency; 3) the death sentence was excessive. More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed for the murder or rape of a German or Japanese...
...which once abhorred sensational crimes and lectured its competitors for trading in them, has lately shocked its readers-and amazed many of its staff-by its ogle-eyed handling of rape cases, sodomy trials, abortions, prostitution. It glossed its coverage slightly with Freudian patter, but it spared no details...
...Combat-happy Red Army occupation troops who, until recently, had terrified Germans with their merry rounds of loot and rape, were being replaced by more disciplined units from Russia...
...Murder, rape and sudden death scarcely stir the branches of this moss-hung family tree. Only uncultured Huey Long's drooling henchman is really outraged by the discovery that the heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions...
...Governor Caldwell did not say the shooting saved a lot of trouble. He did observe that the ordeal-by-open-court for victims of rape was a problem "society has not found a solution...