Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to kill a man." While the young man babbled about doing something to the husband of his cutie, Mr. Anthony passed a note to his announcer suggesting that the client's coat be searched. In it was found a foot-long jack handle-"a fine instrument for murder," as Mr. Anthony now points out. From this distraught juvenile, Mr. Anthony won a promise not to do anything until the next day. By that time Mr. Anthony had a psychiatrist ready, who subsequently worked a cure...
...called "The Knight Hope." For the past few years Prestes been in a Rio de Janeiro jail, serving a 17-year sentence for sedition passed on him after the failure of the Communist uprising of 1935. Three weeks ago he stood trial again, this time for the murder a 17-year-old girl, Elvira Copelo Polonio, alias Elza Fernandes...
...logic, there are no medical failures. Some ulcers heal of themselves. Both physicians and surgeons worry too much about stomach acids, he continued, instead of considering a patient's temperament and general condition. And operation on desperate cases which have not been doctored up "is little short of murder...
...this Dr. Berg made candid answer: "The surgeon can only be accused of accessory murder. The premeditated murder lies at the doorstep of those internists who permit their patients to get into such a deplorable state in which only the 'Hand of the Almighty' could save them. Would Dr. Andresen let them all die? . . . I am sorry that my remarks offended [him] . . . I simply asked for a closer cooperation...
Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city, T. C. I. spent $29,000,000 on expansion in 1936, has spent more millions since. Today...