Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...debts, Jeremiah fell in love with Rachel Jordan, who had been seduced by Cassius Fort and delivered of a stillborn baby. At first she refused him. Then, in a series of extravagantly emotional scenes, Jeremiah finally wore down her resistance. She agreed to marry him on one chilling condition: "Kill Fort...
...people in the U.S.-perhaps half a million-who are legally sane (i.e., they know the difference between right & wrong) but socially irresponsible. Many of them are brilliant and charming. Their condition is likened to a fine automobile with no brakes. At any time they may steal, maim or kill, and when they do they will feel little or no remorse...
Drivers between the ages of 15 and 24, burning up the roads in the family car or their own souped-up hot rods, kill themselves off at the rate of 7,100 a year, account for 27% of all traffic fatalities in the U.S. Last year traffic-minded James S. Kemper, board chairman of Chicago's Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co., whose policyholders (along with all the rest) pay $125 million a year in increased insurance rates because of teen-age drivers, decided to do something new about what he called "teenicide...
...kind-hearted gangster who can't kill his enemies but rather keeps them locked up in his cellar, Douglas plays the lead in a plot that gently parodies the gang warfare movies. Left alone, the parody would have made an exceptionally good scenario. The sex angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast...
...Huks hold the military initiative in the Philippines. They raid villages, kill landlords and officials, and stage sneak attacks on Philippine army and constabulary units. A few weeks ago they boldly raided the U.S. air base at Clark Field in an unsuccessful attempt to steal weapons...