Word: rapine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with 25-year-old Georges Rapin was that from childhood he could do no wrong, and knew it. His father was a wealthy Paris engineer who occasionally chided him for flunking courses, but at 13 Georges gave up on school entirely. At 18, he had his own convertible and stayed out until nearly dawn every morning...
...evidence was too much. Still the compleat caïd, who would show neither pity nor remorse, Bill made a detailed confession, blandly explained: "I knew she could never pay the fine, so she had to die." Later, as he posed triumphantly for newsmen, swaggering Georges Rapin turned to his captors and said, "No hard feelings," and then congratulated them on a "fine investigation...
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