Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known that only a successful revolt could save them politically. In recent months, their power and prestige had slipped badly. For the impending elections to the Constituent Assembly, all other political groups had combined against them. Moreover, they were almost certain to be convicted of direct connection with the murder of La Prensa's right-wing Publisher Francisco Graña, shot down in front of his office. The Grana murder had been a political cause...
...newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for fun, with John Ball, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
William Polk plans to fly to Greece within a month, as soon as the Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the murder of George Polk completes its drive to raise the $10,000 needed for the investigation...
...having got that off my chest, I'm practically rolling on my way to West Point, blank in spite of my education at Cornell, malleable in spite of my education at Virginia, a push-over for the first demagogue who comes along and says "Army schmarmy! We'll murder the bums...