Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school carnival in Westminster, Md., one evening last year, Irving West, a truck driver just out of the Army, got into a fight. When a local policeman seized him, West snapped: "Get your goddam hands off me." Next day Magistrate Charles J. Simpson sentenced West to 30 days in jail and a $25 fine for disorderly conduct. That came as no surprise, but the 20-year-old veteran was totally unprepared for what followed. He was hit with an additional 30-day sentence and another $25 fine for violation of Maryland's 320-year-old blasphemy law. West...
...Sherman Act were American Standard, Kohler Co., and Borg-Warner Corp.-along with Daniel Quinn, Vice President Norman R. Held of Kohler and Joseph J. Decker, manager of product coordination at American Standard. Last year the other twelve companies,* the P.F.M.A. and five executives had decided not to fight the charges; all pleaded "no contest." The courts levied fines totaling $712,500, and the executives served jail sentences of from one to 30 days...
...companies that chose to fight -American Standard, Kohler and Borg-Warner-were accused of conspiring to boost the prices of bathroom fixtures, collectively regulating trade discounts and agreeing to drop cheaper lines. The charges held that an informal cartel operated from...
...historians. To hear the debunkers tell it, the fastest guns in the West were for the most part dirty, drunken, vicious, stupid, syphilitic delinquents who seldom drew anything more dangerous than a one-eyed jack, and hardly had the cojones to face a tranquilized prairie dog in a fair fight...
...such strain, there had to be compensations. Most of the great gunfighters knocked back a mort of whisky, most of it "of a quality that would make a rabbit fight a bulldog." They also sought peace in the company of the "soiled doves" that flocked West after the Civil War. All too often, the doves turned out to be harpies. Rosa reports an episode in which a prostitute knelt and screamed cock-a-doodle-doo as she splashed happily in the hot blood of a stranger who had just been ventilated. As for Calamity Jane, Wild Bill's putative...