Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas, 26, a Negro who billed himself in the Haight as "Superspade." He had been stabbed and shot to death, trussed in a sleeping bag and left to dangle from the top of an oceanside cliff...
...cash evidently stolen from the prosperous peddler, and the driver, a daredevil motorcycle racer named Eric Dahlstrom, 23. Beside him on the seat was a grisly piece of evidence: Carter's right forearm, neatly sutured at the severed end and wrapped in a blue suede bag...
...brief outburst of rioting in Watts last year, the arsonists' first target was a supermarket chain that habitually stocked the shelves of its slum stores with scraggly meat and wilted vegetables that white customers had rejected in other outlets. In Detroit's slums, a 5-lb. bag of flour costs 14? more than in fashionable Grosse Pointe, Mich., peas 12? more per can, eggs up to 250 more per dozen. A television set selling for $124.95 in downtown Detroit costs $189 in a ghetto shop. In many slums, door-todoor salesmen saddle unsophisticated buyers with shoddy furniture...
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Keady said the case was "really a bag job." He contended that the union had reached an agreement with the police before the trial to have the case continued for three months. If none of the defendents had a criminal offense during the period, the case against them would be dropped. In that case, none of the defendents would have had a police record "which is what we wanted," Keady said...