Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every morning the boys from Bill Gordon's barbershop in Meridian, Miss., staked out a big Confederate flag. Across the street, U.S. District Judge W. Harold Cox and a jury of white Mississippians were hearing charges against 18 of their neighbors named as plotters in the grisly 1964 murders of Civil Rights Workers Michael Schwerner, 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, and James Chaney, 21. The indictment did not specify murder-merely a conspiracy to deny the dead men their constitutional rights under a federal statute dating back to Reconstruction days. But the flag was a reminder that the Deep South...
Scrupulously Fair. Mississippi alone can bring murder charges against any or all of the 18, but it has not so far. "We'll have to study the evidence from the trial," commented District Attorney William Johnson Jr. State attorneys claimed that the Government's carefully gathered evidence-mostly amassed by the F.B.I.-was "a complete surprise" to them, although federal officials say they offered it long ago to Governor Paul Johnson...
...yesterday afternoon's anti-war rally in the yard. The largest campus rally in recent years, it was attended by more than 500 persons. Leaflets which asked: "Is it in the interests of chemistry students--or of any students--that war profiteers like Dow prostitute science for repression and murder?" were distributed at the meeting...
They will save their children from the murder that the people in this audience (as citizens of Massachusetts) have unpardonably permitted--and they will not listen when you tell them to go slow...
...enemy with a long-distance rifle, then takes from the corpse a map indicating a cache of glommed Government gold. Before setting out on the treasure hunt, he finds time to rape the local sheriff's daughter. When confronted by the indignant father, he claims roguishly that the murder was self-defense, the rape merely "assault with a friendly weapon." The lumpish lawman not only buys the story, but comes along on the gold rush. Ultimately, the thief heads for Mexico with the loot, cheating every-one-the sheriff, the girl, the U.S. Cavalry and the viewer...