Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Publish the verdict," ordered the judge. In a hushed Miami courtroom last week, Defendant Theodore Robert Bundy, 32, swiveled in his chair and stared intently at the jury of seven men and five women. He was accused in a seven-count indictment of murdering two Florida State University coeds and attempting to murder three others in January 1978. "Guilty," read Clerk Shirley Lewis in a high-pitched monotone. Then she repeated the verdict six more times...
...crackdown on organized crime. The committee concedes that "it was unable to identify the other gunman or the nature and extent of the conspiracy." But it nonetheless concludes that it was "possible" that "an individual organized crime leader, or a small combination of leaders," had conspired to murder the President...
...work was withdrawn, and Shostakovich pursued more orthodox ways. A sanitized version, unveiled in 1963, found its way to the West on records, but this is the first recording of the original score. Harsh, erotic and turbulent with Dostoevskian emotions, it is a tale of small-town adultery and murder, laced with cynicism about the police. Rostropovitch and the cast, including his wife Vishnevskaya, give a caustic, high-velocity performance...
...reading "Doctors of the Death Camps" [June 25], I am reminded of how we condone in the name of science the torture and murder of thousands of monkeys, rats, etc.. every year and never blink...
According to law enforcement officials, the murder was the latest round in a gangland struggle to succeed Carlo Gambino, who died in 1976, as the top boss of New York's five Mafia families...