Word: ravishers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ugly Pleasure. Early last month, after an evening of boozing, the four went out deliberately looking for a Negro girl to ravish. They found their victim,† who had just been to a college dance, with her escort and another couple in a parked car behind a drive-in theater. Hours later, their ugly pleasure taken, the rapists gagged the Negro girl, flung her on the floor of their car and sped off. Deputy sheriffs, warned by the girl's companions, chased the rapists at 90 m.p.h. and overtook them. The Leon County sheriff's office swiftly...
...this city today after defeating the forces of Fidel Castro '47 throughout the whole of Cuba. "Man, it's not like I had anything against this Fidel cat, but man, this Cuba is an ugly country and I want to clean it up, sweep the streets, encompass the universe, ravish the earth." Scott broke the back of the Castro resistance at famous San Juan Hill...
...this process: the Greeks developed the patriarchal Zeus cult at the expense of the once sovereign "Moon-goddess" by interpreting a Cretan icon of the "Goddess dominating the Minos Bull by riding on its back, as though Zeus, in bull disguise, were carrying off the maiden Europa to ravish her at his leisure...
...yard work he was supposed to do for her later that week, and she gave him some money. But as Estelle Barker, a white woman, told the story, Wilson threatened her into giving him money. And after he pocketed the $1.95, she said, he grabbed her and tried to ravish...
...Birmingham, Ala. (pop. 365,000), quite a different kind of trial took place. Accused of burglary "with intent to ravish'' Mrs. Mary Giangrosso, an elderly white woman, was Charles Clarence Hamilton, 26, Negro. Rejecting the court-appointed lawyer, Hamilton attempted to conduct his own defense, denied the state's charge that he entered Mrs. Giangrosso's home in October and that he was caught while removing his clothing. After slightly more than an hour's deliberation the all-White jury returned its verdict: guilty as charged. The sentence: death in the electric chair...