Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other statements told what happened to Willie Earle after he had been taken a few miles out into the countryside. Somebody "pulled the Negro out of the car by his belt." The drivers ''hit him several times with their fists and knocked him to the ground." One of the drivers pulled out a knife. "Before you kill him," he said, "I want to put the same scars on him that he put on Brown." Said Jessie Lee Sammons: "I could hear the tearing of clothing and flesh...
...returned, he tried to rise. He saw that he was trapped. He was lying on his back at the bottom of a rocky California canyon, about 40 miles from Oakland. His wrecked automobile was on its side beside him and his right hand and wrist were pinned underneath the car's front fender...
Things began to come back. He was Ernest Steele-Ernest K. Steele. He had been fishing, then driving down Franklin Canyon Road on his way home. He guessed he had gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...
...morning. Eight feet away, just beyond a little willow tree, a three-foot creek purled and gurgled. Desperately he began rolling his head, eating tufts of grass which grew within reach. That afternoon he heard a hammer banging near by; he knew someone was mending the fence his car had shattered. He screamed, hammered on the fender with his free hand. There was no answer...
...breakfasts, luncheons, teas, cocktail parties and after-theater snacks, he confabbed with RKO Production Boss Dore Schary, 20th Century-Fox Boss Spyros Skouras, who is an old friend, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Railroader & Picturemaker Robert R. Young, who will show Rank around the U.S. in his private car. They all listened to Mr. Rank with respect. As one shrewd U.S. movieman said: "Rank is one of the seven or eight key men they are counting on over there to pull them...