Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the police brought in two dogs to help flush a trapped burglar out of a building in Baltimore, he leaped out of a second-story window, breaking both ankles. "I looked at the dogs and I looked at the pavement." he explained afterwards, "and I decided the pavement was safer...
...look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck. The diminutive mobster lay dead with his head on her lap, one chubby hand still clutching the wheel and the blood from three head wounds slowly staining his natty blue silk suit...
...Homicide Act, the only murders for which the death penalty is prescribed or permitted are those committed 1) with firearms or explosives, 2) against police or prison officers, 3) in resisting arrest or escaping from custody, 4) in furtherance of theft, or 5) for murder committed a second or subsequent time...
Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek found the second major effect of the new coffee policy in the latest Brazilian foreign trade figures. Last year Brazil's balance of payments deficit was $307 million; this year the experts figured the deficit would be closer to $400 million. But the booming coffee sales are bringing unexpected millions, and last week, by conservative reckoning, the 1959 deficit promised to be $200 million or less; Kubitschek & Co. even talk of a surplus. Turned down three months ago when he applied for approval from the International Monetary Fund for a $300 million bailout...
...Hollywood. Literary case histories of ruthless ambition have greatly multiplied since Sammy first came running 20 years ago, but he still outpaces them all. Novelist Budd Schulberg himself trimmed his book down to a two-part, two-hour television show, and to judge from the first installment (the second is due Sunday, NBC, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), TV cannot dim the rage of Sammy's mean-spirited race from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Hollywood's highest echelons...