Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulsa Sheriff George Blaine ("nothing goes" in his "practically lawless" city unless he "says...
...Nationalist M.P. cry out recently: "I can't bear this apartheid. I don't know what to do." It was a fear movingly described by Author Alan Paton in Cry, the Beloved Country: "Which do we prefer, a law-abiding, industrious and purposeful native people or a lawless, idle and purposeless people? The truth is that we do not know, for we fear them both . . . For we fear not only the loss of our possessions, but the loss of our superiority and the loss of our whiteness...
...corporal punishment, more death sentences, even public hangings. The South African Institute of Race Relations takes a different view. This week it declared: "Thousands of non-Europeans, because they have been unable to see any prospects of bettering themselves socially or economically, have turned in sheer hopelessness to the . . . lawless alternatives left to them. Threatened by the monster they have created, the European citizens of the larger South African centers have seemingly still no conscience regarding their deed . . . If we do not destroy this monster and remove its cause, it will destroy...
Doctor's Orders. In Hoboken, N.J., Joe Lawless, 11, limped into a hospital with a bullet wound in his leg and told the intern: "You don't have to go digging in there, Doc. I already dug it out with my penknife. Just put some penicillin...
...picture is also a decided step forward for Director Joseph Losey, who made the raggedly effective The Lawless. Here, with a feeling for understatement as well as wallop, he shows more assured control of a naturalistic style that makes his best scenes look as if they had been caught by a candid camera...