Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind Jones's and other black zealots' volte-face is a hard-won awareness that Negroes themselves take the heaviest casualties in any riot. Though he still promises to lash back with vigor if attacked by whites, Jones, currently appealing his conviction for possession of deadly weapons, is more interested now in achieving black power politically in his native city, where 52% of the 410,000 residents are Negro. As head of the new United Brothers of Newark, Jones said last week: "We are out to bring black self-government to this city by 1970, and the ballot...
After Class. Talking with his brother and a couple of other Mexicans after class, Primitivo was approached from behind by a young tough - one of a group of Negro youths who had paused after molesting people down the road -and struck in the face. He started to lash back, but others from both groups prevented a full-scale fight. A few minutes later, Primitivo and Mrs. Margaret Kindermann, 25, his naturalization teacher, were in more serious trouble...
...writers had sent you their ripped out arms and legs with 'This is a poem' scrawled on them in lipstick.") but he could write nothing kind about their poems. And even a few of his memorialists (Allen Tate, for instance) clearly bear scars from the lash of his terrible swift tongue...
Emotionally estranged from Regina and sick of the family's vulpine itch for plunder, Horace stubbornly refuses The play reaches its melodramatic peak when Horace suffers a heart spasm and pleads pitifully for his medicine. Regina lets him die without blinking an eye lash. That scene is still as chilling a moment of theater as it was when Tallulah Bankhead played the role (her finest...
...Hardy canon is filled with coincidences, fateful encounters and cataclysmic sexual passions, which lash the participants with an implacable frenzy. Of his 14 novels, Far from the Madding Crowd, with its relatively happy ending, is probably the most adaptable to film-and, indeed, it went through two silent treatments. In this version, Screenwriter Frederic Raphael has managed to preserve the book's broad vision while clarifying its bucolic speech. His most valuable ally is Director John Schlesinger (Darling), who displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations, alternating his stars with...