Word: lawlessness
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...Minutemen [Nov. 3] connote a creepy sensation. Thoughts of these persons roaming the countryside instill as great a dread as enemy invasion. There would be bloodshed among our own, for who would submit to these lawless bands, which are a natural recess for enemy agents and crackpots? History is replete with the dreadful accounts of predatory irregulars...
Many Portuguese Angolans are appalled by the lawless terror that is overwhelming the province, would gladly leave if they could. But Salazar recently forbade any white male between 18 and 45 to leave Angola, has sharply limited the export of funds out of Angola. At week's end, there were some signs of sanity in Portugal itself. In a public memorandum to Salazar, 61 leading Portuguese demanded drastic changes in the constitution to bring about a more democratic rule in the homeland-as the first step toward solving Portugal's smoldering colonial problems abroad...
...Lawless Years, Lyle...
...white students ("Make way for the nigger"), reveled in a countering welcome from others ("She has such poise"). But that night, even as Georgia was being toasted across the nation for a display of tolerance and maturity, Students Hunter and Holmes learned that human behavior can be blind and lawless...
...truckload at what was now dubbed "Freedom Village." In Cincinnati, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department a temporary injunction against evictions in Haywood County, and in Memphis, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting further evictions in Fayette County. But the lawless were also active: a 25-year-old Negro was shot and slightly wounded by a night rider as he lay sleeping in his tent...