Word: hung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There had been a whole series of ac tions to stave off a strike. When the last postponement ended June 19, the unions pledged not to strike. But a Johnson-proposed bill, imposing a binding settlement if no voluntary accord was reached, got hung up for a month in a Senate-House conference committee. With the matter still unresolved, the Machinists finally walked...
...Memory of Mary Turner as a Silent Protest Against Mob Violence." Mary Turner, whose crime was that of vocally protesting the lynching of her innocent husband, was in turn lynched by a mob in Georgia on May 7, 1918. The standard account continues: "Mary Turner was pregnant and was hung by her feet. Gasoline was thrown on her clothing and it was set on fire. Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground with a little cry, to be crushed to death by the heel of one of the white men present." (The NAACP's useful...
...white woman in this town and brutally raped her. Brutally raped her. Did the people go out and say that nigger was a victim of discrimination and that's why he raped her? No. Three thousand people from this town rose up, took that beast out, and hung him." The speaker was one of six leaders of a National States Rights Party rally last August in front of the courthouse in Princess Anne, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Inside the courthouse, two Negroes were being held on charges of raping a white woman. The demonstrators had promised...
Though they seem determined to dish out as much as they take, the Chinese by last week were suffering from such acute persecution feelings that when four of their diplomats in East Germany were killed in an auto crash, the embassy hung out posters saying: "Down with the East German revisionists who murdered our comrades...
...senior who plans to enter the Navy after graduation admitted a few days ago that he was frankly "hung up" over his desire to organize middle-class adults against the war for fear that his chances of getting into the Navy might be jeopardized. And his quandary is, in some respects, typical of the more moderate opponents of the war here...