Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who favor the penalty, however, continue to argue that the threat of death stays the hand of a potential murderer. Yet, psychological evidence has shown that the great majority of homicides are not premeditated, but are prompted by anger, insanity, defense, accident, etc. In such instances, the possibility of the death sentence provides no deterrent element...
There appears, then, to be little strength to the argument that the threat of the death penalty deters homicide. Certainly there are even less grounds for upholding the absolute necessity for such a measure...
Recent psychological evidence, furthermore, hints that the threat of execution actually increases the possibility for homicide by appealing to the potential murderer's sense of the spectacular. The criminal mind may be drawn to the celebrity accompanying a murder trial, conducted by a jury with a guillotine in its pocket...
...French forces-in planes, weapons carriers, on camels and afoot-swooping down on a gunrunning caravan in the desert, raiding a burned-out farm settlement for hiding rebels (they found one suspect), seizing a cache of bombs in a raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European residents who built up Algeria, and their determination to defend their homes even by installing pillboxes. From Manhattan, Commentator Eric Sevareid rounded...
Sitting motionless and staring at TV, long feared by physicians as a danger to the eyes, is also a threat to the circulation. So warned Philadelphia's Dr. Meyer Naide in the A.M.A. Journal last week. Internist Naide cited three patients (one a doctor) who had had severe blood clots in leg veins or arteries, requiring hospitalization and treatment with anticlotting drugs. Dr. Naide's prescription: take a "seventh-inning stretch" by getting up and moving around at least once an hour at TV seances, and for women, take off girdles, which can stop circulation in the thighs...