Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...presuming to issue righteous indictments-or to ignore the even greater savagery of the North Korean army. I am simply stating the elementary facts of war in Korea. The South Korean police and the South Korean marines whom I observed in front line areas are brutal. They murder to save themselves the trouble of escorting prisoners to the rear; they murder civilians simply to get them out of the way or to avoid the trouble of searching and cross-examining them. And they extort information-information our forces need and require of the South Korean interrogators-by means so brutal...
...Lead Belly himself thought that he had learned Irene from his Uncle Terrell, just before he was sent to the penitentiary in Texas for murder in 1918. Adding verses as they came to him, Lead Belly made Irene a prison favorite. Five years after he got out of the Texas jail on a pardon, he bounced into Louisiana's state prison farm for assault with intent to kill, and sweet Irene went right along with...
Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote. How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion (TIME, July...
World Enough and Time, by Robert Penn Warren. Political intrigue, murder, and a good man's struggles of conscience in early 19th Century Kentucky; a rich, uneven historical novel by the author of All the King's Men (TIME, June...
World Enough and Time, by Robert Penn Warren. Political intrigue, murder, and a good man's struggles of conscience in early 19th Century Kentucky; a rich, uneven historical novel by the author of All the King's Men (TIME, June...