Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customarily gave vent to their opinions of instructors whose "walk and conversation" were unpalatable. One Professor J. A. G. Davis, chairman of the faculty and apparently rather unloved, was instantly shot by a marauding masked student whom he sought to identify. The "calathump" institution along with the "dyke," a lynch-party directed at students overly "addicted to calico" or Southern Womanhood, fell into gradual disuse in 1856. Ancestral example, however, has not been lost to later generations...
...Warden H. G. Worth and the four guards who shot them. Meanwhile, the state acted to prevent a similar massacre; in Charlton County, it abolished its last remaining highway camp. ¶ In North Carolina, seven white men exonerated by a grand jury last Aug. 5 for an attempt to lynch Godwin ("Buddy") Bush, even though one of the men had confessed, were rearrested. Under an obscure, 54-year-old statute, North Carolina's Governor R. Gregg Cherry is empowered to present a lynch case to a grand jury four times...
...famed Greenville lynch trial (TIME, May 26) drew to an end. On the ninth day, haggard from strain, Judge James Robert Martin Jr. read his instructions to the all-male, all-white jury. He minced no words: "A court of law recognizes no color. . . . I instruct you . . . not to allow any so-called racial issue to enter into your deliberations. . . ." The jurors filed out. A door closed behind them...
Following Cadogan's broadcast, the Harvard Radio Workshop will emerge from its winter hibernation to present William Saroyan's "Hello Out There," a study of a rapist awaiting his fate at the bands of a lynch...
...Huskies will be making their 1947 debut with four members of the squad which pasted the Varsity, 7 to 2, last May. They include catcher Bob Johnson, the second-base combination of Charlie Curll and Sleve Barmukian, and outfielder Joe Lynch. Right-hander Bob Bagwell is the probable starting pitcher for the home team...