Word: pickpocketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against Intellectuals. The News was so hard on Harry Truman that he once complained that "it has treated me like a pickpocket." It has called Washington the Negro capital of the U.S. It is merciless toward the Supreme Court: "Court-nik," editorialized the News, has "surrendered to subversion." Chief Justice Earl Warren is a particular bête noire of News Editorial Columnist Lynn Landrum: "Earl Warren would not make a good, reliable justice of the peace." The News stands against intellectuals ("during the last 20 years they have been wrong by a wider margin than any other group that...
Hangings were attended by huge crowds, and since spectators were preoccupied with watching the gallows, hangings were favorite hunting grounds for pickpockets, even though picking a pocket was a capital offense. If opponents of capital punishment had to sum up their entire case in one tableau, it would be a scene showing a 19th century English pickpocket reaching for the pocket of a spectator at the hanging of a pickpocket...