Word: enfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 100 dissidents from Enfield College of Technology staged a sit-down outside the London borough's civic center to protest a town-council decision to evict a band of gypsies from their caravan site. They were joined by Bernadette Devlin, 22, Britain's angry young Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, who devoured soft ice cream and spouted hard politics. The peppery lass harangued the crowd for about ten minutes, declaring: "If the citizens of England allow the gypsies to be evicted without protest, they cannot go to church and say 'I love my brother...
Hannes Graff and Siegfried Javotnik are Austrian students. They could just as well be undergraduates at Columbia, bent on bringing off a zoo bust for the seals in Central Park. At first they throb and chortle through the spring countryside on a huge 700-cc. Royal Enfield motorcycle. But even there they come face to face with cruelty and the law. Siggy, the idealist of the pair, fights with a milkman who is mistreating a horse. Trying to escape the police, he is killed crashing into a wagonload of honey-filled beehives...
...phenomena but as interdependent parts of a complex system with properties of its own), wrote the classic statement of this theory (Gestalt Psychology 1929), then emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in 1935 to continue research as a professor at Swarthmore and later Dartmouth; of a heart attack; in Enfield...
Conservatives won 82 seats on the council, as against 18 for the Laborites, who had previously held 64 seats. The council is a comparatively new body that governs a region containing almost 9,000,000 people within a 620-sq.-mi. area that stretches as far north as Enfield and as far south as Croydon...
...star witness for the defense was "Delay" Beckwith himself, who punctuated his testimony with soft "suhs." "Did you kill Medgar Evers?" asked Lott. "No, suh." Was Beckwith in Jackson the night of the murder? "No, suh." At one point, Lott handed Beckwith the Enfield to examine. Beckwith leaned forward in the witness chair, aimed the gun over the jury's heads and pulled the trigger. Said he: "I couldn't say this is my scope or my gun." Anyway, Beckwith added pleasantly, his Enfield with a telescopic sight had been stolen from his car two days before Evers...