Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such shaky ground are the combatants met. Ultimately, after Poitier has braved a lynch mob and a gang of chain-swinging toughs on his way toward his goal, Steiger digs down to his inner resources and musters a jowly half-smile and handshake to send Poitier...
...WOBBLIES, by Patrick Renshaw. The rise and fall of the Industrial Workers of the World as seen by a British scholar. There is a fine cast of anarchists and eccentrics, many of whom died at the hands of lynch mobs but not before saying a few memorable last words...
...adroit ploy by the most popular leader in the Arab world, an effort to turn ignominy into personal triumph -and it worked. Angry Algerian street mobs who had been shouting "Lynch Nasser!" suddenly changed their tune. Within 30 minutes Iraqi President Abdel Rahman Aref was on the phone to Cairo urging Nasser to reconsider. Lebanese President Charles Helou wept openly when he heard the news. From Baghdad to Beirut, Arab mobs swept into the streets to demonstrate for Nasser. Often the demonstrations took on an ugly anti-Americanism, as in Beirut, where rioters were so unimaginative as to set fire...
...narrow the split in California would be for the Yorty and Brown factions to unite behine a compromise delegation chairman. The most obvious choice would be Attorney General Thomas Lynch, 64, who has stayed clear of intraparty brouhaha but to date has shown no stomach for the role of Solomon. The state's influential assembly speaker, Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, seems inclined to duck this disruptive round in order to husband his good will for a possible go at the governorship...
...gamble," said Deputy Democratic State Chairman John Lynch. "Shafer laid his administration on the line and he came through." Said Republican Senator Hugh Scott: "It shows he'll take a big risk for an important result...