Word: maniac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave without male escort. Even in daylight many housewives joined in groups for protection; others armed themselves with pistols, ammonia guns, bottles of acid and carving knives. Bermuda had good reason to be scared. In the last seven months, three women have been murdered by a particularly vicious sex maniac; a fourth barely escaped. And the killer was still at large...
...outer-space visitors, no insect mutations, nothing from the black lagoon, just a plain old-fashioned maniac. I was too scared even to remember his name...
...piece bathing suit, substituted one of the triple wedding of some County Mayo girls. Says a Dublin newsman: "When you see an English paper writing about Lourdes or the Irish saints, you can bet that the space in home editions was filled with i WAS A TEEN-AGE SEX MANIAC...
...developed the hydrogen bomb before you. Our rockets carry warheads many times larger than yours." Later, he mawkishly spoke of the man responsible for all this progress, the same man that he himself denounced three years ago in his dramatic, weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days he, Beria, Bulganin and Malenkov had kept their vigil at Stalin's dacha while the great...
...Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...