Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a crowd of excited Negro youths at his back, the off-duty cop held his badge in one hand, his .38-cal. revolver in the other, and advanced toward the doorway to face a Negro boy who was holding a knife. "I'm a police lieutenant," said Thomas R. Gilligan. "Come out and drop it." James Powell, 15, kept the knife chest-high, lunged at Gilligan. The policeman fired a warning shot to the left, into the building. Powell swung the knife. Gilligan blocked the blow with his right hand, but the blade scraped his arm. Powell slashed...
Contradictions. The basic contradictions in testimony lay in the claims of 15 teenagers, most of whom knew Powell, that Powell had not attacked Gilligan with a knife. Most of them said that Powell had fallen to the sidewalk after the first shot. Then, claimed ten of these witnesses, Gilligan fired two shots into Powell when he was down on the sidewalk...
...happy one for Lyndon. "I've been going to conventions since 1928," he drawled, "and this one is the best one of all." Before a 10-ft. by 6-ft. birthday cake baked in the shape of the U.S., Lyndon playfully made a pass at Arizona with a knife, then sheared off the tip of Texas and wolfed it down with help from Lady Bird and Hubert...
...involuntary servitude!" he cried. "We will never integrate!" At the Pickrick's entrance he placed a box of red-painted ax handles marked "Souvenir-Or Otherwise-$2" for white customers who wanted to help keep his fried chicken inviolate. Near by he also placed a dummy with a knife in its back and red paint smeared over it, explained that this symbolized the "American free-enterprise system, states' rights and freedom," which were now "stabbed, bleeding and dying...
...give a damn about posterity," declared Composer Kurt Weill. "I write for today." Nonetheless, since Weill's death in 1950, his catchy, sophisticated music (September Song, Mack the Knife, Alabama Song) has inspired a fiercely devoted following in the U.S. and abroad and prompted a spate of memorial record albums and revivals, most memorably the phenomenal off-Broadway production (2,707 performances) of his Threepenny Opera...