Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must our great nation lower itself to the position of consorting with thugs of Nikita Khrushchev's ilk? Since when did we condone oppression, murder, genocide and every other heinous crime known to civilized man by wining and dining the living symbol of tyranny? Why must we risk the integrity of our great nation by staking our Chief Executive to a game of poker with an opponent who is dealing from his own marked deck...
When Chicago police arrested Joey Glimco on his first murder charge, the booking officer gave up counting Joey's previous arrests, just listed them as "innumerable."' Since that day in 1928, Tough Guy Glimco (alias Joseph Glinico, Joseph Glielmi. etc., etc.) has added a lot more arrests to his police record. Yet Joey Glimco, longtime extortion racketeer in Chicago's West Side poultry markets, at age 50 is an official of the U.S.'s biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president...
...earth today may well be the citizens of Ilocos Sur province (pop. 275,000) in northern Luzon. There, long before dusk, nervous wives set out the evening meal and draw the shutters, for, as the local saying goes, when the sun sets, blood begins to flow. Last year 87 murders were recorded in the province, and no one knew how many others went unreported by Ilocanos who did not want to get involved as witnesses. In Ilocos Sur's capital of Vigan (pop. 24,000), where 70 have been murdered in the past two years, there are 214 back...
...with carbines as they sat at dinner. Florentino had been suspected by his killers of recently doing away with Mariano and Isabelo Tayaba-who, in turn, were thought to have killed Lauriano and Pablo Sadabo. Besides, young José was scheduled to testify soon at still another murder trial. Police had all the motives they could want, and jailed two suspects...
...political quarrels of two old rivals for the Ilocos congressional seat in Manila. One is the Liberal Party's Floro Crisologo, who served three terms, then lost to his enemy, Nacionalista Congressman Faustino Tobia. "Sure, I give my boys guns," admits Tobia (whose uncle is wanted for murder). "They need them to protect themselves, don't they?" Crisologo is equally frank: "I don't deny it. We kill Tobia's men. But we kill only one to every four or five of our own killed by his goons. We should get medals...