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Word: posseman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swirling with white and yellow clouds of smoke, raging with the cries of men. Choking, bleeding, the Negroes fled in all directions while the whites pursued them. The mounted men uncoiled bull whips and lashed out viciously as the horses' hoofs trampled the fallen. "O.K., nigger!" snarled a posseman, flailing away at a running Negro woman. "You wanted to march-now march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION 1965: CIVIL RIGHTS The Central Point | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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