Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bedlam broke loose when the group began to march off. A rock crashed into one Negro's chest. Pop bottles and cherry bombs filled the air. Scores of whites surged off the sidewalks and waded into the column with clubs, knives and fists. When some young Negroes began hitting...
Measured Malevolence. When some 3,000 Negroes trooped into Canton and began pitching circus-style tents on the grassy grounds of an all-Negro elementary school, more than 100 armed state-highway patrolmen, county deputies and local cops assembled near by. "You will not be allowed to pitch those tents...
Dazed, a young girl in a pink dress crawled through the smoke and collapsed at the feet of a trooper; he hardly had to shift position to kick her in the side. A large group of Negroes clustered in terror alongside the brick school building; with measured malevolence, three troopers...
The next problem was how to get to Puerto Rico. There is no airline service between Havana and San Juan, and the U.S. refused to let Fidel fly his athletes in aboard Cuban Ilyushins. Furthermore, warned Washington, any Cuban ship trying to land them in Puerto Rico would be seized...
Horrendous Results. Little of Warren's argument impressed Justice John Marshall Harlan, who was joined by Byron White, Potter Stewart and Tom Clark in dissent. Reddening with anger and pounding his fist on the desk before him, Harlan accused the majority of peddling "poor constitutional law," which promised "harmful...