Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening day at Fairgrounds Park, white swimmers drifted back to the locker room in sullen anger when the first Negroes splashed into the outdoor pool. Outside the pool fence, a mob of some 200 teen-agers collected. Police arrived in time to escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...
Within an hour the crowd had swollen to more than 5,000. In the park along bustling Grand Boulevard busy teen-age gangs hunted down Negroes. Others climbed into trucks and circled the park, looking for more targets. One Negro managed to seize a club from his attackers, flailed away in wall-eyed fear, with blood oozing through his shirt front. When police finally reached him, the crowd hooted with glee. "He must have a skull like a rock," said one 16-year-old. "I kicked him twice in the head myself...
...Mexico complained that the U.S. already owned 54,000 square miles-about 44% of the state's total area*-counting seven national forests, a national park, the vast Los Alamos atomic energy layout and the Armed Forces Special Weapons installation east of Albuquerque...
...labeled a "stinkeroo." Shuffling Jersey Joe Walcott, never a dashing crowd-pleaser, was old (35) and tired. His opponent, thin-mustached Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati, was young enough (27), but he was a second-rater without punch or drive. Just before they squared off in Chicago's Comiskey Park last week, a hanger-on wriggled in to where Joe Louis sat in the fourth row and asked breathlessly: "Champ, have you got a last-minute pick?" Deadpan Joe, the front man for boxing's new promotional monopoly, mumbled forthrightly: "Ain't doin' any pickin...
...Chicago, where 132 lbs. is the maximum weight a race horse is required to carry, all-conquering Calumet Farm got ready to hear the cash register ring. It was different there from Belmont Park, N.Y., where last month the handicapper tried to put 138 Ibs. on Coaltown in the rich Sub urban Handicap - and Calumet refused to run him. At Arlington Park last week, carrying 132, Coaltown got his nose in front momentarily in the $27,800 Equipoise Mile. After that, he looked like just an other horse as he took a three-length trouncing from Star Reward, running...