Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before that outbreak, there had been spectator problems. A few white students yelled at Eastern's Negro players: "Back to the woods." At the same time, groups of teen-age Negroes, plainly having been drinking, began belligerently roaming the stadium. A white girl was knifed in the buttocks...
Glancing down the program again, I am impressed by the versatility of both groups. Their range extends from Vittoria motets and Byrd madrigals to Negro spirituals and German drinking songs, but it is just this extension that bothers me, and I suspect many others, as we sat for two and...
Magic Rites. Among the superstitious Kikuyu, the British have learned, very little can be accomplished without magic rites. The Mau Mau forced horror-struck natives to violate tribal taboos, and so bound them to the movement by cutting them off from all else. Some of the grisly Mau Mau oath...
The Ailing. Physical and ethical ailments caused turnouts in some districts. California's Dalip Saund, a native of India, suffered a stroke, could not campaign at all, was beaten by Minor Martin, a former University of California football player. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford had accepted a $1.500...
Many of the great criminal lawyers are as famous for their dramatic ability as for their legal skills. But none ever made a courtroom more theatrical than Earl Rogers, a dandyish, hard-drinking, devil-may-care Californian who practiced at the turn of the century. Rogers won acquittals no one...