Word: cecile
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...three had had time for just one night's sleep in Meridian when they decided to drive over to Longdale to inspect the ruins of a Negro church that had been burned down by segregationists. Returning to Meridian, they were picked up outside Philadelphia by Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price for speeding. Price said later he had held them until 10:30 that steamy, moonlit night, then turned them loose...
Holstered pistols and blackjacks humped against their hips and red mud clung to their boots as Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Cecil Price got out of their squad car and walked into the Philadelphia, Miss., courthouse one chill morning last week. Just back from a dawn search for a moonshine still in backwoods country, neither seemed to notice four men in trench coats waiting in cars parked near the courthouse...
After visiting the church, the three workers were stopped by Cecil Price, who claimed that they were speeding near Philadelphia. He jailed them until long after dark, then released them. They disappeared. Price insisted that he followed them to the edge of town, saw them drive away...
When the FBI finally made its arrests, it outlined the charges in chilling tones. Said the FBI report last week: "It was part of the plan and purpose of the conspiracy that Cecil Ray Price, acting under the color of his office," would arrest Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman "without lawful cause, and detain them in the Neshoba County jail." Then, said the FBI, Price arranged it so that when they left the jail he and nine other men?members or warm admirers of the White Knights of the Klan?could intercept them outside town. The killers forced them into other...
...honorary posts, including a term as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. It is not hard to imagine his audiences of college students and Anglophiles treating him as lesser nobility, a surviving link to the Bloomsbury group of Virginia Woolf and the Oxford gang of W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice and Spender himself...