Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attorney Floyd Buford, a Georgia native, accused them of "actively participating" in the slaying. His chief witness, ex-Klansman Thomas "Big Tom" Stephens, a truck driver, related that a garage operator told him the night of the slaying that Sims and Myers "was out chasin' a nigger car with D.C. tags on it." Stephens also testified that he later heard the pair "discuss a shootin'," adding: "I heard one say he tried to get the other one not to kill, not to shoot the nigger...
Guns, Revolvers & Clubs. Even after the Penn murder, a group of Athens rowdies traveled to nearby Taliaferro County, where they beat and shot at a one-legged Negro farmer, after halting his car on a country road. Taliaferro Sheriff Milton Moore identified Sims and Myers as two of the whites, and the jury was shown weapons seized from their cars: six sawed-off shotguns, four .38-cal. revolvers, a .22-cal. rifle, a length of heavy chain, and several wooden clubs bearing carved swastikas or the letters...
...Peerage (family motto: "Look Here for a Brave Spirit") on charges of trying to set fire to an outhouse near the dam. A wine importer, Christopher Knight, 23, was also hauled in, accused of trying to blow up the dam itself. On the same night, police also apprehended a car carrying two more young men and a giant poster reading GO HOME...
Keeping Track. The bulk wine arrives from southern France in barges or 40-tank-car trains, rests eight days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother...
...headaches and his hospital expenses, Delair was awarded a total of $7,300 in damages from the car driver. And under a legal principle known as prejudice d'agrément, which gives a Frenchman the right to some recompense for being deprived of his favorite pleasure, the court threw in a symbolic gesture to take care of the farmer's lost taste for wine: an additional ten francs...