Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military regalia and a Sam Browne belt, stepped majestically into the waiting Bentley in Trinidad-Tobago's capital of Port-of-Spain. Thousands of cheering Negroes lined the streets, and one man gallantly pulled off his shirt and laid it in the path of the visitor's car. Later, 1,100 schoolchildren put on a dance extravaganza. Then, seated on a throne beneath a purple canopy in a makeshift church on Port-of-Spain's outskirts, the visitor watched impassively as incense-swinging priests murmured prayers and the high priest read a long eulogy. Thus last week...
...jungle and be trampled by elephants and eaten by the lions." Undiscouraged, the Rastas showed up at the airport waving placards reading "Hail to the Lord Anointed" and chanting "Selassie is Christ" and "Welcome to our God and King." Somewhat taken aback, Selassie was quickly bundled into a waiting car and rushed to a reception, where he observed politely that he had found the welcoming demonstration "beyond my expectations...
...tired as well. "I don't know if I can keep going on much longer," he said at a Catholic charities communion breakfast. But then he laughed: "I will keep going as long as I can, even if I need a derrick to get me out of my car...
...Alone. Without a warrant, the police broke into the Wakitas' apartment and car, "found" two small bottles of sleeping pills that Mits said he had never seen. The pills were of a type not to be sold without prescription, and the Wakitas were booked for drug possession. By the time a judge dismissed the charges, Mits and his wife had been fired from their jobs, kicked out of their apartment, ordered to remove Grace's daughters from their school. When Danny argued entrapment and was found not guilty last June, Judge Walter Kowalski denounced the jury...
...night last February, Mits had a flat tire while driving his family home after visiting Grace's relatives. As he got out to fix it, another car drew up and hovered nearby. When he opened the door to get back into his car, automatically turning on the inside lights, Mits became an easy target and was shot dead. Danny, who had lived with Mits and "loved him like a brother," was immediately pulled in for questioning by the police...