Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights marchers plod bravely, with heads held high as befits God's noblest creatures, while surrounded by ignorant, sullen, savage, glowering Mississippians who show resentment and hatred by snarling, cursing, flailing and kicking them. The marchers are protected only by porcine cops who with measured malevolence gas, club and kick them. I wish you paid as much homage to truth as to adjectives...
...generally retained the initiative as police dashed confusedly back and forth over the battleground to meet each new challenge. At times, the cops displayed admirable coolness in the face of vile curses and the bruising missiles of street warfare; at others, they matched the rioters in reckless violence with club and gun. Once, after losing a sniper in the dark, a squad of infuriated cops turned on some Negro bystanders, caught one unarmed boy of about twelve and beat him. Negro officers on the whole seemed rougher than their white colleagues. Typical was one Negro patrolman, who felled a rioter...
...President's Club is a Democratic fund-raising group whose members contribute at least $1,000 each to the party and on occasion get to shake Johnson's hand...
...G.O.P.'s latest cheer started with a chuckle. Last spring, St. Louis Brewer (Budweiser) August Busch Ir. happened to join the President's Club, bringing in family and friends to the tune of $10,000 in Democratic contributions. Several weeks later the Justice Department happened to drop a four-year-old antitrust suit against his Anheuser-Busch Corp. Then Busch, who also owns the Cardinals, happened to invite First-Ball Pitcher Hubert Humphrey to fly to the All-Star game in his company plane. In view of the airline strike, the Vice President hopped aboard - along with...
Well, Minority Leader Gerald Ford allowed at a press conference, "some very disturbing rumors were floating around Washington about the dismissal of certain antitrust actions and contributions to the President's Club." G.O.P. Congressmen Charles Goodell of New York and Thomas Curtis of Missouri were also intrigued by the turn of events. Strange, said Goodell on the House floor, that the Busch contributions to the President's Club had been made "suddenly and simultaneously, as manna from above." Added Curtis: "A very serious matter...