Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the trouble began when the superintendent of an apartment building across the street from Robert F. Wagner Junior High School sprayed a group of summer-school pupils with a hose and that the kids retaliated by throwing garbage-can covers and bottles at him. The superintendent, Patrick Lynch, fled into the building, and Powell followed him. Gilligan, who had just taken a radio to a repair shop in the building, heard the noise, ran out to the sidewalk to see what was going...
...that the city would not tolerate lawlessness. "Law and order," said the mayor, "are the Negro's best friend-make no mistake about that. The opposite of law and order is mob rule, and that is the way of the Ku Klux Klan, the night riders and the lynch mobs...
...Negro and white demonstrators under the guidance of Martin Luther King Jr. had staged daily wade-ins at the predominantly white beach, paraded nightly through historic Slave Market park. One night two weeks ago, some 400 whites were whipped to a frenzy by a California rabble-rouser named Connie Lynch, who cried: "I favor violence to preserve the white race any time, any place, anywhere. Now I grant you, some niggers are gonna get killed in the process, but when war's on, that's what happens." The mob surged forth, threw itself at 250 civil rights demonstrators...
Four minutes after the new stock went on sale last week at $20 a share, its price jumped to $27. Brokers throughout the U.S. were swamped with calls for it, and buyers even lined up in Paris. The chief underwriter-Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith-set up a bank of 32 Teletypes in Manhattan to take orders. In Washington, one sobbing woman asked whether she could sue a broker who claimed that he had no shares; in Houston, demand was ten times greater than the supply. Why the commotion? The federally sponsored
Both Bakkensen and Lynch also seem sure to place. Bakkensen's University record toss of 177 ft. 6 in. places him about tenth in the country, but a throw in the 180's, which he seems ready to reach, would vault him well into the top six. Lynch has been improving consistently, and his time of 51.8 seconds in the IC4A's places him sixth in the nation...