Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collision. On the western banks of Lake Lanier, about 30 miles north of bustling Atlanta, it is an amiably sleepy town of about 2,000 souls (all of Forsyth County has only 38,000). Its biggest employer is a poultry-processing plant; its biggest social activity for adolescents is drag-racing outside the K mart. But for all its bucolic torpor, Cumming bears a dark stain on its history: an 18-year-old white woman was beaten and raped there one day in 1912 and, before she died, named three blacks as her attackers. One was lynched, the other...
...fights of three years on the streets. An upper incisor is missing, and his lower teeth jut outward against his lower lip, giving the impression that he can't close his mouth. His baggy pants are about five inches too long and when he walks, their frayed ends drag on the ground. "You know something?" he asks, holding up the bottle. "I wasn't stuck to this stuff until the cold got to me. Now I'll freeze without it. I could go to Florida or someplace, but I know this town and I know who the creeps are. Besides...
...become that in many parts of South Africa they can terrify township residents simply by holding up boxes of matches. When they are not carrying out spontaneous attacks, they may hold kangaroo "people's courts" that are designed to intimidate the public. In a typical court session, young toughs drag the accused forward, inform him or * her of the charges and then pronounce and execute the sentence. The outcome is never in doubt...
...begins veteran Director Sidney Lumet's latest flick, The Morning After, a thriller which saunters through the demimonde of Los Angeles, a synthetic world of high society hairdressers, third-rate actresses, and drag queens...
...various shadowy transactions that North oversaw seem likely to drag the arcane world of the private weapons dealers into its brightest public spotlight ever. Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel appointed to look into all aspects of Iranscam, has been empowered to investigate the private networks that supplied the contras. The special Senate and House investigating committees that will hold public hearings probably beginning next month intend to probe the role of the arms merchants as well...