Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then why does hunger hang on? Some of those who face malnutrition -or even starvation-simply do not understand how to use existing programs, says Freeman. Others, especially rural Negroes in the Deep South, are victims of the indifference and prejudice of local officials who, according to the six Field Foundation doctors, use programs "selectively, politically, and with obvious racial considerations in mind...
Land of Cockaigne. Whatever his status, the hippie is a confirmed believer in the benefits and benefices of his own way of life-even though he recognizes that if all the world were hip, he could not survive without a return to work and routine hang-ups. "Hippiedom is more than a choice of life style," says Chuck Hollander, 27, drug expert for the National Student Association...
...Montana, but not before he had said: "Better to go out in a blaze of glory than to give in." When a mob of war veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime." He was right: the mob came back that night, snatched him from jail and hanged his bullet-riddled body from a bridge...
...marathon defense served only to turn a painful exercise into an unseemly ordeal that ended by depriving Dodd of even the last vestige of dignity. Often sentimental, Dodd eventually pleaded his cause with the mawkishness of a white-haired Uriah Heep. "How many times do you want to hang me?" he asked his colleagues. "If you want to do it, be done with it-be done with it! Do away with me, and that will be the end! But in the twilight of my life-and how many years are left to me? Probably few, probably...
...refuse to make repairs or even plant grass in the dusty, barren areas between buildings. Trash and garbage have been collected irregularly, gaping holes in the streets have gone unrepaired, and recreational facilities have been nonexistent. Most serious, more than half of the younger men are unemployed. "They just hang around the streets," says Richard Freeman, chairman of the board of aldermen's police committee. "The trouble is, nobody does anything until you have some trouble like this...