Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naming In the Heat of the Night best picture, its star Rod Steiger best actor, and Sterling Silliphant's script best original screenplay. The chief victim of the backlash was Bonnie and Clyde, which for the sensitive members of the Academy conjured up visions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown...
...police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications, or that shrimp-boat captains are uttering obscenities on ship-to-shore frequencies, it is the FCC that takes the rap. Besides all this, the FCC grapples with Comsat and community TV antenna development, not to mention countless research chores, such as the POPSI Project-measurement of "Precipitation and other types of Off-Path Scatter Interference" on satellite and microwave communications...
Obviously many of the members want peaceful change; Black Power exponents pushed through an open-housing ordinance in Flint, Mich. On the other hand, the mood of ugliness was typified by H. Rap Brown, who went to court for bail-term violations and spoke up so harshly during a recess that he was charged with threatening a Negro FBI agent: "We are going to get you, and if you have any children, we will get them...
...whiner," Comedian Lenny Bruce said after a New York Criminal Court convicted him on an obscenity charge in November 1964. "I respect the law, and it will eventually vindicate me." Although Bruce became a minor martyr and hero to some people, few believed that he would eventually beat the rap. Last week he did-18 months after he had been found dead in Hollywood of a probable overdose of drugs...
...night of the meet, Edwards and Rap Brown promised 5,000 demonstrators outside the Garden. Only about 500 showed up-to spend the evening roaming around in little knots, pushing and shouting at 400 police. During the melee, ten Negro athletes, including Indoor World Record Long Jumper Bob Beamon, entered the Garden, performed in their events, and went quickly home...