Word: arson
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...pays many state taxes. It does not take a lifetime to obtain a reasonably-defined view of the issues and needs of a small city--the city manager plan itself is dependent upon this premise. And a lifetime of residence is no guarantee of intelligent voting. There is every arson to believe that a college man or woman will exercise far more care in judging a candidate's worthiness than will a very large number of residents. If, on the other trouble point, any questionable electioneering methods are then used by members of a group, only those members...
Included in the list of crimes committed by those who call on the Defenders are murder, rape, larceny, robbery, burglary, drunkenness, vagrancy, assault and battery, forgery, and arson. Thus the students get a wide range of training...
...Force's Major General Orvil A. (for Arson) Anderson, kicked out of his job as head of the Air War College for advocating preventive war with Russia (TIME, Sept. 11), got a new assignment: command of the 3750th Technical Training Wing at Wichita Falls, Texas, which turns out aircraft mechanics, hydraulic specialists, riggers, armorers, and other ground crewmen, has nothing to do with global strategy...
...daughter Maria Therese a letter saying, "I am alive, your real brother. Ask me to prove it." Maria, then the Duchess of Angouleme, paid no attention, but others were more sympathetic. The mayor of Spandau believed Naundorff and took him to Brandenburg. There Naundorff was arrested for arson and jailed for counterfeiting, but two years later, on his release, he persuaded the Minister of Justice in nearby Crossen that he was the Dauphin. Eventually Naundorff moved on to Switzerland...
Slow Burn. In Miami, Mrs. Virginia Lorns admitted setting fire to a truck, explained that her boy friend had been using it to call on another woman. In Los Angeles, John G. Murray, who objected to his landlady's pianoplaying, was booked on suspicion of attempted arson, told police: "I was going to burn the house down, and the piano...