Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panel from which Negroes have not been excluded), threatened to grant Goldsby's plea for a writ of habeas corpus if the state failed to comply. Plainly implied is a warning with impact beyond Mississippi's borders: Negroes cannot lawfully be convicted of crime in counties that bar Negroes from jury service...
...second period, John McIntosh passed from the far right across the goal mouth, and after a fast scramble for the ball, Wendell managed to flip it into the nets. The ball floated high over Ellington's outstretched hands and passed just below the cross-bar...
...cult has developed, the martini has suffered abominations that would have doomed a lesser drink. Johnny Solon, an unlamented mixologist at the old Waldorf bar, diluted the basic gin and vermouth with orange juice and called it a Bronx-a cheerless drink now well on its way to oblivion. Others have polluted the martini with grenadine, mint sprigs, anchovies, crystallized violets, sherry, absinthe, and even Chanel No. 5. They are still at it: last week Washingtonians were drinking something called a "dillytini"-a martini with a two-inch green bean, pickled in dill vinegar-which tastes, according to one experimenter...
Plans for a lively weekend include a picnic, a banquet and dance, and a round-the-clock bar. Some alumni will also play in the annual Dartmouth Concert, given Friday night before the game...
...hauled in by the law for public drunkenness. This time, in London, she got off with a $5.60 fine, after a constable testified that Sir Winston's daughter "appeared to be trying to hold a sort of political meeting" all by herself in a local snack bar...