Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terror started in October with the kidnaping of a young girl. She told police that half a dozen Negroes had raped her at knifepoint. About three weeks later, 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, clubwoman and wife of a former assistant attorney general of Indiana, was murdered in her suburban home. Her throat had been ripped open with a butcher knife. Her killing is still unsolved. Next, a cab driver was beaten to death. Five Negroes, who claimed he took 15? too much from them, will be tried for the murder...
Last week the jittery community suffered a further shock. In Meridian Hills, wealthy food broker Herschel Burney came home one night, found his 39-year-old wife, Mary Lois, dead on a bed, her face half blown away by a shotgun blast. Her murderer got away...
...Sheriff Robert Vail Ennis. And both statements have been roughly true. Day or night a lady could sashay unmenaced up Beeville's streets, past the cream stuccoed Kohler Hotel, the Blue Bonnet Café, and the two-story buff brick jail where Sheriff Ennis lives with his wife and daughter and keeps evildoers under lock...
...saleslady cited yesterday a municipal regulation more vigorously enforced than the standing five-wampum-belt fine for kissing the wife on the Sabbath. The law makes it a misdemeanor to negotiate pavement sales without a license...
Young (36) Tokyo District Court Judge Yoshitada Yamaguchi was an honest man. When his wife pleaded with him to sell some clothes and family possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...