Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges tossed the indictments out, ruling that freedom from murder is not one of the rights protected by Section 241. On appeal to the Supreme Court last week, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall argued that despite the 1951 ruling, the U.S. has power to "remove an obstruction interposed by a gang of toughs between Negroes and their constitutional rights." Speaking of Washington Negro Lemuel Penn, who was murdered while driving on a Georgia highway last year, Marshall argued that the court could rule that Section 241 protects the federal right to interstate travel. Even if Marshall's plea saves...
Eyewitnesses to Fu's execution are baffled when the corpse count of London's foggy Limehouse district shows an alarming upswing. The victims are strangled with crimson Tibetan prayer scarves, the weapons favored by "a gang of Burmese dacoits." Scotland Yard Man Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) thoughtfully eyes the wall where a death mask of his sworn foe hangs as a trophy. "I dreamt that Fu Manchu was still alive," he muses. "I've been uneasy...
Price arranged for a 42-room headquarters suite in the Hotel Roosevelt, rented 117 neighborhood store-front offices throughout the city, organized some 30,000 fresh-faced young volunteers to staff telephones and ring doorbells. They were an exuberant, collegiate-looking gang, some of them Jewish youngsters whose yarmulkes at his rallies blended exotically with the brightly ribboned straw boaters of the "Lindsay Girls...
There was talk of retirement for B-G, but the old man vowed to carry on his fight to save Israel from "Eshkol and his gang." Eshkol himself let it be known that he was willing to welcome back into Mapai any repentant members of Ben-Gurion's prodigal band. Trying hard not to sound smug, Eshkol raised a toast in brandy "L'Hayyim" (to life) and remarked, "Ben-Gurion asked the people to judge. They have judged...
...golden days of the silver screen, the rest of the world had it pretty well figured out that the U.S. was cowboy-and-Indian country except for a patch of gang turf called Chicago, and that the populace was all Tom Mixes, Bogarts and Harlows. Now the world knows better: it realizes that the U.S. is, in fact, a vast Ponderosa peopled by dashing doctors and defense counsels and hard-nosed Combatants, all of whom love a dunderhead named Lucy. At a time when there are 1,400 times as many television sets (173 million) as movie houses on earth...