Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I have reached one conclusion after reading your latest civil rights blurb. All 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 cops tried to grab him. He called to friends for help. The mob was born. Within the hour, roving bands, composed largely of youngsters, were looting stores, setting fires, and heaving bricks and bottles at the blue-helmeted police who were sent in to restore order.
The police response to the mob was often feckless but occasionally ferocious. As the disorders spread, Superintendent Orlando Wilson built his force from 200 men the first night to 900 the third. The mobs generally retained the initiative as police dashed confusedly back and forth over the battleground to meet...
Criminal Government. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit could not have disagreed more strongly. Speaking for that unanimous court, Judge Simon Sobeloff (former U.S. Solicitor General) pointed out that the Baltimore police "repentance" occurred well after it became "manifest" that the Veneys had skipped town. (The FBI...
Chaplin's "City Lights," and Buster Keaton's "Cops."