Word: outlawful
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...went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded as a man of property. But by then law & order had begun to move into the interior; property claims had to be legally recorded. Outlaw Jimmy could not safely show his face in a town. By being an outlaw he missed the chance of escorting a group of Indians to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. He was pushed farther & farther up into the mountains...
...chance and went off with Juana. After she had borne him several children he did what he could to legalize her position by marrying her. And he finally risked an appearance in town, got his claim to his own lands recorded. He became a respectable, retired, sheep-ranching outlaw. By the time the Childses met her, Juana's earlier charms had faded and thickened; she seemed to think that, as far as women were concerned, Jimmy was still a somewhat hard case...
After two and a half months of futile picketing, squabbling with police and bickering with the heads of the International Seamen's Union, the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor (TIME, May 25) last week fizzled out in complete defeat for the strikers. Offered a settlement by the Union heads which promised nothing except "no discrimination," the insurgents reluctantly agreed to return to work, give up their demands for a higher wage scale, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. Most admitted defeat. To save his face, Strikeleader Joseph Curran announced...
...this impasse have matters remained. The strikers, with yells of "Judas!" at the Union heads, have picketed strenuously, tried to prevent ships from sailing, offered to submit to referendum. The Union heads, with yells of "Outlaw!" at the strikers, have successfully found crews for all outbound ships, refused to put the question to a Union referendum. Last week, as both sides stood pat, Leader Curran claimed 4,500 of New York Harbor's 10,000 seamen were behind him. The Union heads put the figure...
Xerxes relates that he had difficulties with some of his subjects who worshipped forbidden gods, but that he "sapped the foundations" of the outlaw temples, restored the cult of the Zoroastrian god Ahuramazda. The Institute's Orientalists took this to mean that Xerxes' father, Darius, who probably heard the preaching of Zoroaster himself, enforced the new religion on unwilling priests and they, at Darius' death, tried to return to their old ways...