Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged farmers at one long table talking land, bean planting, the future of Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want to?" One man just says, "Viet Nam," ending that), and crime in the county (a man has been shot in a break-in attempt -"Funny thing, he's a married nigger"). None of them pays the least notice to me or the other two strangers eating within earshot. It's their place; we're invisible. While I sense...
...other Detroiters, their city's selection as the site of the convention is an important bench mark, one that could signify Detroit's rebirth after decades of decay. Just three years ago, few people ventured at night into downtown Detroit because of the city's crime rate, one of the highest in the nation. Now much has changed. The crime rate fell more sharply in Detroit during 1977 than it did in any other major U.S. city, and continued to decrease in 1978. One reason for the drop seems to be Young's assigning many police...
When a Birmingham church was bombed in 1963 and four black Sunday-school girls were killed, a young white lawyer named Charles Morgan Jr. stood up before the businessmen's club and blamed the entire white community for the crime. Driven out of his town by harassment and death threats, he returned to the South in 1964 as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Region. He sued for integrated prisons and juries, legislative reapportionment and voting rights, and defended the likes of Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry...
...thousand dollars. "My talent is to make money, not to manage it," he said. Beverly, who is asking for $1,000 a week alimony, has her own quirks, such as her temper. "We had 26 maids in a year. She wanted perfection," Mailer complained. "Do you call that a crime?" asked Mrs. Mailer's attorney. Norman's rejoinder: "No, I call it a pity...
...became his company's editor in chief at 17. At first he followed the trends of popular movies: if cowboy films were big, he turned out western comics; if crime dramas were packing them in, well, he wrote cops-and-robbers stories. In the early '60s though, Lee got bored and began creating his own characters. The result: superheroes with personality as well as power, saviors who suffered from human frailties...