Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harder." Last weekend the police came by the Murray home to see if Susan was there. She was, but since the cops had no warrant, Madalyn had no intention of turning her in. The discussion led to a push here, a shove there and finally to a full-fledged brawl, as neighbors shouted, "Kill them! Hit 'em harder! Get that bitch...
...Enough. How about returning to Massachusetts to make the first run of his life for elective office? Well, there are problems there too. Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody is up this fall for a second two-year term, but it would hardly seem sporting for Bobby to shove him aside. He could, of course, wait until 1966 and run for Republican Lev Saltonstall's Senate seat, but Brother Teddy is already in the Senate, and even Massachusetts might feel that one Senator Kennedy at a time is enough...
Included in the workshop will be instructions on how to use nonviolent techniques in dangerous situations. In the past such training has included little dramas, in which the trainee will pretend to be a field-worker, while other members of the group curse him, spit on him, shove, slap, and hit him. SNCC members have found that these practice sessions help make the real-life confrontations less strange and frightening...
About 25 seedy, sleazy Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators, some of them appearing to be white beatniks, crowded in near the speakers' platform. When the introductions began, they shouted "Freedom Now" and "Jim Crow Must Go." Police moved in to shove them back, knocked several down. Others dropped limp to the ground and officers dragged them away. As the President spoke, the chant continued. His message was well suited to the unseemly scene...
Photographer Merritt was released with the order to "walk the hell out of here"; last man to shove him along was Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo. When Governor George Wallace heard what had happened he told Lingo that "this sort of thing must not be allowed to happen," and he called Merritt in to shake his hand warmly. "They all expressed dismay," said Merritt, "but it seemed to me there was something insincere about it." He was right. The next day Wallace gave the newspapers his version of the incident: Merritt, the Governor claimed, had resisted the sheriff, would...