Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bigger, More Determined." Also in the aftermath of the Sunday school bombing, a county grand jury indicted two 16-year-old white boys, Michael Lee Farley and Larry Joe Sims, for first-degree murder in the death of a 13-year-old Negro, Virgil Ware. In the disorders that followed the church deaths, Virgil was shot as he rode on the handle bars of his brother's bicycle. The grand jury refused to indict Birmingham Policeman Jack Parker for the fatal shooting of another Negro teenager, Johnny Robinson, 16, who was part of a group that stoned white...
...Hoodlum Joe Valachi last week wound up his solo performance before the McClellan Committee in Washington, was quickly hustled off to his maximum-security cell to rest his throat until his instructive services are needed again...
Little Tony, Tough Tony, Fat Tony, Tony Boy, Tony the Bum, Tony the Sheik, Tony the Geep, Tony Bananas and Tony Cheese; Frankie the Bug, Frank the Wop, Frank the Boss and Big Frank; Hoboken Joe, Joe from Pelham Bay, Crazy Joey, Joe Palisades and Staten Island Joe; Charlie Bullets and Charlie the Blade; Trigger Mike, Skinny Mike and Black Mike; Black Jim, Jimmy Blue Eyes, Jimmy the Blond and Jimmy the Sniff; Johnny Bath Beach and John the Bug; Mr. Gribs and The Gap, Kid Blast and The Sidge; The Sheik and The Cat; Benny the Bum, Teddy...
...third major change in the line-up is at right tackle, where Neal Curtin has been installed in the first unit. Yovicsin described Curtin's replacement of Joe Jurek on the starting team as a "merit promotion." Films have shown that Curtin has regained the form that made him the top freshman tackle two years ago. Last season he was waylaid by injuries. Jurek has on occasion had had difficulty defending his outpost...
...past few decades from Victorian modesty to paperback love; it has not been a desirable move. A passage like, "I learned my first great lesson in love one afternoon when I came upon my mother curled in a corner of a basement plugging herself with an oiled corncob" (from Joe Porter's The Last Muscle) makes one suspect some sort of mental sanitation problem over at Advocate House...