Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckshot for a Juke Joint. The sheriff let himself down on the steps and talked softly. "You know that when you elected me, I was sworn to uphold the law," he said. "And I have to protect my prisoners." Anyway, he added, the prisoners had been rushed off to another jail for safekeeping. (A third suspect was in the jail at the time, but was sneaked off later...
...rode off, and almost broke up. Just for the hell of it, though, in the little fanning town of Groveland, 65 miles from Tampa and not far from Willie and Norma Padgett's house, the men with shotguns pumped 15 loads of buckshot into a Negro-owned juke joint. Then they looked around for more Negroes-but the 400 residents of Groveland's Negro district had been carted to safety by white citizens who feared what was coming...
...revealed severe damage: tapestries had been destroyed, the altar smashed, gaping holes torn in the circular ceiling of the chapel. On behalf of the Benedictines, Catholic authorities refused to take the church back without full reparations, and put the damage between $300,000 and $500,000. This week a joint commission began trying to work out a satisfactory settlement...
British sailors in their stiff white duck hats, Frenchmen in their flat caps with red pom-poms and Dutchmen in their black streamered hats all but drank the local pubs dry. Field Marshal Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, held a reception on board H.M.S. Implacable. The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard gave a cocktail party aboard the Tromp, which was named after one of the few admirals of any nation who soundly beat the British on the seas...
...fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack of food, and with it went her life savings. Edmund Locke, whose small farm-equipment agency nearly went on the rocks during last year's I.L.W.U. West Coast strike, gave up this time. "I'm busted," said Locke sadly. Union pickets marched under the palm trees on Ala Moana...