Word: ain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three years ago, she returned to Selma to care for her mother, now 98 years old, and has twice tried unsuccessfully to register. She contends that she and others in the line were complaining about police treatment of an arrested civil rights worker when Clark heard her say: "There ain't nobody scared here." At that, Clark jerked her out of line, twisted her arm, struck her on the head. Then, she concedes, "I went...
...stand up to the white man-if need be, to organize a union. He is fired. His father-in-law eventually wangles him a job in a filling station, but a few days later the white vigilantes warn his employer that the station will be wrecked if "that nigger ain't gone-and damn soon." In fury and frustration, the hero roughs up his wife and cuts out for Birmingham. There he finds his father, a malevolent old derelict, and in him sees what he himself will some day surely be-unless he stands up and fights...
...bottle a moon beam. It is an elusive and often per- plexing art. The mechanics of inscribing notations, for one thing, is such a tedious and time-consuming task that for centuries composers and musicians have been searching for an easier and faster way of writing music. Now Brit ain's Imperial Typewriter Co. Ltd. is of fering just that - a typewriter that types music...
...resulting chaos might not only have snarled world trade and weakened the West, but would almost certainly have undermined the dollar as well. It was clear to the Americans that they had to act just as resolutely in defense of the pound as they had to follow Brit ain's rate rise. Said Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa: "It's like a run on a bank: if you roll the money truck in the door, the depositors who planned to withdraw will go away." The rescue that followed was the most dar ing ever tried...
...father was killed. But as it turned out, both hunter and prey had bad legal luck. With the all-male jury reportedly ready to acquit Jones, the prosecution suddenly requested and won a mistrial on the ground that two jurors were relatives of two defense character witnesses. "It ain't fair to me," complained Jones, who may be retried in June. Vowed Lee: "This...