Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this spring's elections, the blacks in Wilcox County finally got organized. They voted out Lumbar Jenkins, a white who had held the post of sheriff for 32 years. During those years he had murdered many black people. He has vowed to "fill the jails with niggers" before he leaves office; and he and his deputies have been stopping black people on the road at night, beating them, kicking them, and hauling them off to jail...
...that fails, as expected, an attempt may be made to win a compromise on an amount lower than $290 million. Many airline executives will not be unhappy if the plan dies. Their industry is sagging and the prospect of carrying deficit-producing passengers in more expensive planes does not fill them with delight...
...their part, Administration insiders have questioned whether Egeberg knows what is going on in HEW. They complain that it took him eleven months to fill three of the department's five top health posts with nominees acceptable to the Administration. Critics charge that he has been too immersed in petty bickering with other HEW officials to do his own job. Egeberg claims to have the complete confidence of HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson. But Richardson has yet to make a public statement supporting Egeberg...
After the election, the names of the 92 winners went to Premier George Papadopoulos, who will give the final nod to 46 of them and add another ten candidates of his own to fill the committee's 56 seats. The committee will be expected to 1) "debate and comment" on legislation, in the junta's words, but not too acidulously; 2) offer the government a "cross section of public opinion," but not a very broad one; 3) serve as "a seedbed" for politicians of the future, but certainly not as a hotbed...
...week. Though he praised the "characteristic dynamism" of the "young country," the Pope questioned whether "pride in having built a prosperous Australia is enough for you." He warned of "the temptation to be satisfied when material needs are fulfilled ... to forget life's moral and spiritual dimension ... to fill its place with counterfeits, some of which lead in the end to contempt for man." One symptom of such contempt, the Pope seemed to imply, might be Australia's discriminatory immigration restrictions. "Do not close your limited circle," he said at one point, "for the sake of selfish satisfaction...