Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...
...Visit to Ray. As the story was pieced together later, this is what happened : the eight shambled over to Massachusetts Hall where Ray roomed, and walked in without bothering to be asked. Ray was wearing a green varsity sweater with a white "D" knitted into it. That also got their goat: Cirrotta had played freshman football and was entitled only to class numerals. One of them sneered: "You even sleep in it." "No," said Ray, "I was cold...
...daybed and Doxsee hit him again when he sat up. He hauled Cirrotta up by the sweater and gave it to him for the third time. Somewhere along the line, another of the eight whacked Ray. The boys also wrecked the room. The student who lived across the hall found Ray in the bathroom wiping the blood off a cut lip, and put him to bed. Later he had to be taken to the hospital. There, after five hours, Ray Cirrotta died on the operating table of a cerebral hemorrhage. Dartmouth suspended the eight students...
Elena O'Connor ran to her husband, clung to him so desperately that she was dragged along with the men to the miners' union hall. Before long, 14 other engineers and foremen, including six U.S. citizens, were brought to the hall. The kidnaping of the engineers was part of a plan to force the return of Mine Union Boss Juan Lechin, who had been banished to Chile along with 19 of his aides on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government...
When soldiers from the local garrison moved in, the miners fought back with rifles and dynamite. Next day, when army reinforcements arrived, the miners blew up the hall, took to the hills. In the fighting, 40 were killed, 100 wounded...