Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy with Judge Stout's self-styled "swift justice," which may overlook constitutional niceties. She is also in continuing physical danger; one spectator shakedown in her courtroom recently produced 22 weapons, ranging from knives to scissors to an 18-in. dog chain. Armed with round-the-clock bodyguards, however, the judge goes serenely on her way. "If they can frighten the courts," she says, "they will just take over. I don't intend to be frightened...
...bank had no actual knowledge that the Justice Department would try to block the merger until after 3 o'clock, Friday, Sept. 8, 1961, at which time the merger was already effected. The actual opinion of Justice was not seen until a still later date...
...because the actors and actresses are enjoying it themselves. They have dispensed with the heavy complexities of modern drama and have turned the clock back two and a half centuries, to time when human affairs began and ended with money and sex, when robbers and whores danced at their compatriots' hangings. But they let us know from the start that no one's really going to get hanged, that the raging and weeping histrionics are no more than over-acting (though done with skill and polish), that what we are seeing is only a beggar's tale...
Johnson told the lawyers that he would have to hear evidence on their petition, and scheduled a hearing for Thursday, the first available date. Until the matter was settled, Johnson advised, King should call off the Tuesday march. At 9 o'clock that night, the attorneys called the judge to say that King agreed...
...following in the cities, stood up to attack British insistence on dealing with black nationalist politicians instead of "the true leaders of the people, the chiefs." Britain has meddled too long in Rhodesian affairs, said one red-robed patriarch: "We want our independence now-tonight, at 5 o'clock...