Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third degree is supposed to begin by awakening the prisoner in the dead of night, never telling him with what he is charged, and beginning gently with tea and perhaps cigarets. If he will not talk, and if the examining official smashes him suddenly in the face with the butt of a revolver, that is called "playing on the guitar...
...around Bombay, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Benares, Mr. Brailsford examined many Indian men and women bearing "wounds on teh feets or bruises on the stomach, made with the butt end of a rifle . . . one man with a terribly swollen arm, fractured or dislocated, hanging in a sling . . . a woman [with] a badly swollen face caused by a blow...
...evening last fortnight some 200 University of Mississippi students stood about watching a dummy burning high on their campus flagpole. It was an effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the effigy-burning, representing student disapproval of Governor Bilbo's lavish dismissal last summer of 179 officials and faculty members in four of Mississippi's state-controlled institutions (University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi State College for Women, State Teachers College...
Near Flerkimer, N. Y., Oliver J. Duff, camping out, was annoyed by a cow, hit it with the butt of his rifle, was shot...
Near Jamestown, N. Y., Tearle H. George, fireman, caught a muskrat in a trap, prodded it with the butt of his shotgun, was shot in the abdomen...