Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monroe told me last spring that things were so bad in Monroe that he was just waiting for the federal government to step in and clean things up. Well, he's still waiting. Federal intervention in the Mississippi "black belt" will come only when the Negroes begin to shoot back. The intervention will be in the form of disarming the Negroes. What else can we expect? The FBI could not even get a conviction of the known lynchers of Mack Parker or the murderer of Rev. Lee. Even though we are told we have a "liberal tradition...
...Yates is the best defensive player in the country. Tom Thacker is the tallest 6 ft. 2 in. man in the country. Ron Bonham is Cincinnati's best shooter since Oscar Robertson. With the starting five rounded out by brilliant ballhandler Larry Singleton ("He would rather eat sawdust than shoot," Sports Illustrated noted) and 6 ft. 8 in, center George Wilson, Cincinnati has a balance that will make them hard to dethrone. Cincinnati's deliberate style does not make them an exciting team to watch--but they win ball games...
...civilized nations as Humorist S. J. Perelman, 59. Having bagged a Broadway comedy hit. The Beauty Part, Perelman was an author in search of "four magazine articles." At the end of his Land-Roving safari through Kenya, he caromed up to London, hoping later to join a tiger shoot in India, then on to Burma and Bangkok to see what the jet-set drifters were doing for laughs...
France Nuyen makes one last try. It involves a weekend at Lake Biwa, a sort of Nipponese Grossinger's, where she has arranged for Harvey to shoot some pictures. With the rain pelting on the roof of the bungalow, she serves dinner on the floor, lets down her hair, and the background music comes to a crescendo. (The theme, mystifyingly, seems to be something that Composer Elmer Bernstein remembered from Composer Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story...
...house and get them after I got away form there. And he said, 'If you hurt any of these white people here, God damn it, I'm going to kill.' I don't know what made him think I was going to let him live long enough to shoot...