Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denaburg estimates that, exclusive of traffic cases, more than 80 per cent of the defendants in Recorder's Court are Negroes ("that's because of the conditions they live in"), but he insists that 'they get more than a square shake." The meaning is clear: crimes involving only Negroes are simply not regarded as serious by law enforcement officials. One top prosecuting attorney has remarked, for example, that a Negro who kills another Negro is generally charged with man-slaughter, while a white man who kills another white under similar circumstances is usually tried for murder...
...degree, that is fine with bootleggers and their customers, for whom, job opportunities and liquor prices being what they are, any major shake-up in the police force would be for a while, at any rate, a sobering catastrophe. But even the bootleggers are dissatisfied with the present state of affairs; some are murmuring vaguely to each other of forming a united front and simply cutting off payments to the police. They want the police to ignore bootlegging, but without being paid...
...embassies, and USIA libraries are burned. Headlines are black and thunderous; U.S. allies look grave and offer to mediate; the United Nations is in an uproar. In the U.S., sandals and beards and protest signs turn up everywhere. The liberal press is in a frenzy. Congressmen and Senators shake their heads solemnly and charge the U.S. with attempting to police the world...
...show can be spectacular. Every night, more than 1,000 rounds of heavy artillery thump into the paddies and jungles surrounding Saigon to discourage Viet Cong activity. Their explosions light up the sky and shake the city. Five miles from the downtown Caravelle Hotel, the air buzzes with "lightning bugs" -helicopters fitted out with powerful spotlights to pick out Charlie-and the soft sizzle of parachute flares. Rocket-bearing choppers and DC-3s bristling with rapid-fire miniguns patrol the perimeter, waiting to pounce...
...pitches for the San Francisco Giants. Righthander Perry really likes steak, but his wife once gave him baked chicken before he went out to pitch. He won. So then it was chicken every workday. In the dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps his right armpit...