Word: sided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colored folks in the sad and seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and a wild laugh, was a bad man to mess around with. He kept a collection of pistols in the two rooms he occupied in a run-down corner house and he was always firing them off or leaning out the windows and pointing them at people...
More squad cars and more cops hurried up. They began firing pistols and carbines. Craig scuttled around inside the house like a caged animal, firing back in vicious bursts-now from the front of the house, now from the side, now from the back. Glass smashed and tinkled, neighborhood women screamed, bullets hummed and a reckless crowd of 10,000 people began jamming into the street. New police reinforcements arrived, among them the force's top brass. Fire trucks rumbled into the street and turned huge searchlights on Craig's bullet-riddled fortress...
...victory had its grim side. Except for a few old men & women, there were no inhabitants left in the region: the Reds had taken all able-bodied men & women with them. In Krystallopigi, 88-year-old Vassilis Claras explained: "The day before the government army came, the Communists gave us orders to cross into Albania, because the Monarcho-Fascists would kill us. I told them I was an old man and didn't care whether I lived or died-so I stayed...
...diameter, weighing 7,000 pounds, it is more stoutly built (of 1¾ in. steel) for the tremendous pressures at lower depths-2,000 pounds per square inch at 4,500 feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by breathing...
...Roseanna opens, all is quiet on the Hatfield-McCoy front. Over in West Virginia, the hot-tempered, hard-drinking Hatfields are helling about after bear and possum in their own backyard. On the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River, the hard-working McCoys are peaceably tending their taters and corn. But the armistice is not to last. When young Johnse Hatfield (Farley Granger) falls in love with Roseanna McCoy (Joan Evans) and carries her off to be his bride, hell breaks loose on the border. In no time at all, every Hatfield in the hills is blazing away...