Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racketeer wanted in the U.S. for trial on charges of Mafia-linked narcotics smuggling. The lawyer, who was working for the U.S. Justice Department, accused the immigration aide of offering a $20,000 bribe and the others of pressuring him to agree to let the racketeer get out of jail on bail...
Lost Insight. The results of this impassioned pursuit of anarchy are catastrophic for both Tarl and the novel. In her determination to keep her son Benjamin out of school, she embarks on two frantic years of hysterical defiance and evasion, finally breaks with her shadowy husband and goes to jail. She is believable at first because she is so remarkably irritating, later because her repetitious moralizing becomes so remarkably dull. She wears platitudes the way other women wear perfume, and the fact that many of them are fresh, new platitudes does not keep them from becoming stale...
...kept Selma as stubbornly segregated as any community in the nation. From his Selma headquarters, Dallas County Sheriff James Clark firmly kept Negroes down, aided by a squad of special deputies known locally as "squirrel shooters." Last summer Clark and his men herded more than 100 Negroes off to jail with sticks, blows and cattle prods when they tried to register to vote...
...white woman stood on a chair screaming "Get him, get him, get him!" Robinson landed two punches on King's head, aimed two kicks at his groin. Pulled away from King by city police, Robinson was hustled off, later was fined $100 and sentenced to 60 days in jail for assault. King got his room in the Hotel Albert (price: $5.75), became the first Negro ever to register and stay there...
...Standards. Cox was arrested, convicted and sentenced to four months in jail and fined $200 for breach of the peace. He got five months and a $500 fine for obstructing public passages, one year and a $5,000 fine for picketing a courthouse-all to be served cumulatively, for a total of 21 months in jail and $5,700 in fines. Louisiana's highest court upheld the convictions...