Word: kosciusko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while a painfully earnest schoolgirl in a Warsaw classroom rattled off a quaintly colorful description of the U.S. Revolutionary War. Excerpt: "So the farmers rose up. At the head of the fighters stood a farmer, George Washington. And the distinguished Thomas Jefferson was there too. The great Polish fighters, Kosciusko and Pulaski, also took part in the fight. In 1776 the uprisers were victorious. The Congress of the U.S. adopted the Constitution, and the President of the U.S. was the former leader of the fight for freedom, George Washington." By such deft vignettes, CBS's See It Now presented...
...Congratulations on naming the Hungarian Freedom Fighter. Since the embattled American farmers stood at Concord in 1775, there has been no greater and finer and braver blow struck for human liberty and freedom than that by these modern sons of Thaddeus Kosciusko...
Down Wind. In Kosciusko, Miss., charged with operating a still, Rudolf Slater swore he never would have been caught except that his dog's run-in with a skunk had left it unable to smell approaching revenuers...
...stood at the back door of his house with a shotgun the night three of his children were murdered and another wounded by three drunken white hoodlums. By Mississippi law, that was all the prosecutor had to prove. Last week an all-white jury in the little town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) brought in the verdict...
...Both houses of the Mississippi legislature deplored the murders of the Negro children, asked speedy prosecution of the criminals. Mayor Alton Massey of Kosciusko proclaimed a "Thomas Harris Day," urged donations of money for the family. Kosciusko's outraged white citizens agreed to hire an attorney to assist in the prosecution of Turner and the Whitt brothers...