Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chance They Took. In fact, none of those explanations really described the meaning of the march. It was informal, often formless-yet it somehow had great dignity. It had little of the sustained suspense of an astronaut shoot or a national political convention-but it built, despite moments of boredom and restlessness-to an emotion-draining climax. It probably changed few minds that had already been made up; the chances were that integrationists would remain integrationists and segregationists would remain segregationists. It was in the probable effects on the conscience of millions of previously indifferent Americans that the march might...
...tactical"-designed for short-range (mostly under 30 miles) battlefield or defensive use. Many are tiny power-packages of less than a kiloton (equal to 1,000 tons of TNT) that could be sent on slender, supersonic missiles to wipe out a company, sink a ship or shoot down planes...
After dialogue like that Mike Hammer might go off and shoot a blonde, but Baker's hero just keeps on talking...
...trees around it.) Ware said that the Sheriff asked him for his knife and and placed it in Ware's handcuffed hands. Ware recalled the Sheriff contacting the state troopers on his radio saying "There's a nigger coming at me with a knife, I'll have to shoot him." According to Ware, the voice on the radio responded "Go ahead...
Then the defense put on Robert Lee Daniels, a Negro who had been arrested for "drunken driving" on the Fourth of July and had been in jail during the night when Charlie Ware had been shot. He reported he was awake at the time the shooting occurred and had seen the Sheriff put a knife into Charlie Ware's hand. He then said he saw the Sheriff step back into the shadow of the trees and cry "Hold it," and shoot; again "Hold it," another shot; again, "Hold it," a third shot...