Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their brief, they accused a formidable array of Mississippi officials and organizations of a "concerted, planned and organized conspiracy" to deny the Negro his rights. Among the defendants named: Sheriff L. C. Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price of Neshoba County, where three young civil rights workers were murdered last summer, the white Citizens Councils, the Ku Klux Klan, and Americans for the Preservation of the White Race...
...There will be no African rule in my lifetime," said Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith. "The white man is the master of Rhodesia, has built it and in tends to keep it." In the huge African colony staked out by Cecil Rhodes, many white men agree with Smith -and with Rhodes's 19th century goal of "a whole plan of British advance in South and Central Africa." But times have changed - and so has Britain...
Guns at Bafasi. In an unnamed African nation, newly promoted to Commonwealth status, Colonel lack Hawkins and Colonist Cecil Parker are discussing the military coup headed by a rebel leader, Jobila. Not a bad sort, really, Jobila. Spent five years in jail...
...played Pygmalion to many a Hollywood Galatea (Garbo in Camille, Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight), she exquisitely personifies "a squashed cabbage leaf" transformed into an English rose. Her comedy scenes are delectable, her charm ineluctable, and her first appearance among society folk at Ascot-in a gown created by Designer Cecil Beaton, whose art nouveau sets and costumes are a splendid show in themselves-is one of those great movie moments seldom accomplished without the help of brass bands and fireworks. And Hepburn tops that when she begins describing, in precise Mayfair accents, the drunken demise of her old aunt...
When cars arrived and prospective registrants piled out, they were escorted up the court-house steps by Neshoba county sheriff Lawrence Rainey and deputy sheriff Cecil Price, both of whom were recently indicted for depriving Philadelphia Negroes of their civil rights...