Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found that no autobiography was accepted by the group chiefs unless the writer tagged himself a member either of "the squeezing class or the squeezed class," reviled his father and family ties in general, and - if at all connected with the Nationalist government - confessed to being an "accessory thug" of the "reactionary looting class." Next came reports in "creative history"; one of the most successful told how the Chinese Communist Party had united China and won the war against Japan. Anyone who failed to grasp this was rebuked for not being a "clear-thinking person...
...Quick) Spillane, 33, World War II fighter pilot whose sexy blood-and-thug detective thrillers have netted him handsome royalties, announced that he had become a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. He had discovered a greater story in the Bible, he said, "than you or I will ever find in fiction." Convinced that the type of books he has turned out have contributed to the "moral breakdown of the present generation," he intends to clean up his writing...
Weapon. In Newark, a thug took $42 from the cash register in Mrs. Anna Margolin's drygoods store while he held her at fingerpoint...
...bayonets flashed and tear-gas shells popped for five hours; when the Tudeh mob finally broke, a police colonel had been killed, eight of the rioters lay dead, and hundreds more were under arrest. While the police looked the other way, Mossadegh's huskies, led by a cheery thug nicknamed "Brainless," methodically sacked two Tudeh newspaper offices, then systematically did the same to seven anti-Communist papers opposed to Mosadegh...
...Amory over a loudspeaker, rejects society's values and affirms that the only truth is found within oneself. He tries to force his personal viewpoint on society as the absolute, being too much a moral coward to live alone with his idea. He is finally killed by a thug who wants to "be somebody" by killing someone he thinks necessary to the world. He actually kills one of its most useless citizens, the play tells...