Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead to worse disorder," lawmen in most cities refrained from gunplay, and magistrates quickly processed those arrested for rioting, setting low bail as the commission suggested. There were few black snipers on the rooftops; on the streets, police and National Guardsmen mostly kept their weapons holstered or unloaded except in cases of extreme provocation. "It seems to me a high-policy decision was made to trade goods and appliances for human lives," remarked Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark. "Police have shown remarkable restraint," added former CORE Leader James Farmer...
Nobody knows what a schmurz is, but it seems as menacing as it is silent. Yet the family ignores it--except when, from time to time, they are kicking or beating or trying to strangle it. It never speaks, never makes a sound, but crawls on the floor and submits without so much as a sound to frequent assaults...
...defendants except Michael K. Ferber 2G were present in the U.S. District Court to hear their attorneys claim that their actions were protected under the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech, and that the indictment was so defective that it should be dismissed...
Georgia now has 11 Negro legislators, McGill notes, more than any other states except Michigan and Illinois. All but one of the eleven come from Atlanta, where the influx of blacks from rural areas and the exodus of middle class whites to the suburbs have left the city with a 43 per cent black population. McGill claims that within about four years Atlanta will very likely have a Negro mayor...
...wasn't the sort of sign usually posted in the Sheraton Boston Hotel. "No firearms may be carried in or out of the hall except by exhibitors," it read. But the hotel needed that sign last week, for it was hosting the 97th annual convention of the National Rifle Association--praised by its friends as "the defender of our rights to keep and bear arms" and damned by its foes as "the head of the gun nut lobby...