Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...community was, as Governor Pyle termed it, "a lawless, commercial, undertaking dominated by a half-dozen greedy and licensed men who used religion as screen for systematic 'white slavery' and economic exploitation," it was a screne and prosperous enterprise. A visitor to Short Creek before the great raid would have found it much like any other American town, a little more prosperous than most, perhaps, because its Mormon principle of pooling cattle and grain left no one hungry...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Cinemactress Gail (The Lawless) Russell, 29, recently named by Cinemactor John Wayne's wife Esperanza, now divorced, as John's impromptu hostess for most of one night, wheeled up behind two cops' prowl car and blasted away with her horn. Hauled in for a sobriety test, Gail, fetchingly decked out in dungarees, flunked, spent most of the night as an impromptu guest of the city jail...
...being intelligently aggressive on the football field. Johnny won All-State honors as an end in 1948, his junior year. The next year Captain-elect Lattner was shifted to halfback, where he became a bread & butter boy for Fenwick Coach Tony Lawless. Known as "Big John" to his teammates. Lattner averaged 18 yds. a carry. He made All-State again, the first player in Illinois records to do it two years in a row at different positions. He also led Fenwick to the finals of the Chicago championship. Fenwick lost, but Johnny will never forget the crowd that turned...
...once returned from a Honolulu stag party with a stripteaser's "large black bite" on his neck. And after one studio party, he came home tight at dawn, smashed a door pane to get in, admitted he had dropped by the house of his costar, Gail (The Lawless) Russell. Countered Wayne: one whole week, when he was away in Hawaii, Esperanza's home-loving house guest was Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton. At week's end, the Waynes agreed to agree on money, but John still intended to have his day in court. Hollywood was touched...
...weak Burmese government, which has never controlled its borders since the British Raj departed, Li's lawless veterans are "foreign bandits" who defy its writ, pillage its merchants and give the Chinese Communists an ever-ready excuse for threatening invasion. Last month, in a burst of near unanimity, the U.N. General Assembly condemned Li Mi and advised his guerrillas to get out or be interned. Li Mi refused, and in so doing defied the world. Last week, in Formosa where he is recuperating from a heart attack, he told TIME Correspondent John Meeklin his side of the story...