Search Details

Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Knight lowered his voice: "Had a little trouble here last night--cop got shot." He grinned. "Same little raggedy-ass cop we kidnapped back in '61.--Hell, it ain't nothin' like it was back then. Them cops came right in here last night. We didn' use' to 'low no...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

Knight was known around Albany as a "gang leader." In the South, this implied nothing about jackets, a "turf," organized warfare or a hierarchical command, but meant simply that he fought hard, drank a lot, carried influence among his male peers in C.M.E. as the best among equals, and weilded...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

Our first conversations were necessarily political. Knight assumed my inferiority in his territory and wanted to prove it in mine: the white problem. He knew my line of course. He had heard it before. I was working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, I was "the new Movement cat...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

Just before the jury acted, Presidential Peacemakers Kenneth Roy all, former Army Secretary, and Earl Blaik, former West Point football coach, returned from Birmingham to Washington to talk with Kennedy. Both remained tight-lipped about their findings and recommendations, pending a final report to the President this week, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Farce in Birmingham | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Twenty gun-toting cops burst into the offices of La Dépêche d'Algérie, Algiers' leading French-language newspaper, ordered the 200 employees out within ten minutes. Simultaneously, out in the provinces police swooped on L'Echo d'Oran and La...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Nationalization Craze | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Previous | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | Next