Word: affrays
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...news of this bloody Kurdish affray- the climax, according to Prime Minister Ismet Inonü, of "659 recent disturbances in the Dersim region"-was carefully kept out of Turkey's press until the last brigand had been sent flying...
...last night's affray the score was tied in the early moments at 4-4 but the Crimson soon fell behind. The Blue team was showing superior ballhandling, coupled with an impregnable zone defense...
Added to the fact that Illinois' reigning Democrats are split internally, this unsavory affray threatened to raise a scandal at Stateville equal to the one created two years ago by revelations of vice and perversion at New York City's Welfare Island Prison (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Even non-partisan citizens wondered if it were customary at Stateville to pamper wealthy prisoners, place perverts in positions of authority...
Going down Lacon Mountain 20 miles out of Decatur, the five cars carrying prisoners and officers came suddenly to a halt. Later there was no agreement as to how and why the affray started. But. in sum, Negro Ozie Powell leaned forward and sliced a deputy sheriff in the neck with a knife. The sheriff then shot off a portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles...
...Barrett had to be wheeled into the Federal courtroom to hear sentence passed. In addition to the loss of one eye. shot out by his brother-in-law. Barrett was crippled in the knees by a volley of slugs fired by the Government agents in the West College Corner affray. Ordering the prisoner to be hanged at the Marion County Jail next March, U. S. District Judge Robert C. Baltzell concluded: "May I add personally that I hope and pray that God will be merciful unto...