Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days afterward, a corpse was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River. The body was swollen and decomposing, the skull smashed by blows and pierced by a bullet, and a heavy cotton-gin fan was lashed to the neck. Mose Wright said the body was that of his nephew. To the surprise of many Northerners, the Tallahatchie County grand jury promptly indicted two white men for murder: Roy Bryant, 24, storekeeper and ex-paratrooper, husband of the insulted woman; and his half brother, J. W. Milam...
...worry and disease. But they were still shocked by one figure that came from behind the barbed wire. Dressed in a black Chinese gown and tattered brown cap, Roman Catholic Bishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni looked dazedly out at the free world with eyes that seemed set in a skull...
...basic training that the staff spends its time: trips through the rope maze to teach clumsy feet how to stop fighting each other, lessons in how to wrap ankles, and running, running, running until the 85 hopefuls are too tired for anything but skull talks. Then back for more lessons: how to cut at right angles, how to pass without knocking down the receiver, and how to center between the legs...
...Skull Session. One of those in the line was Thomas Wentzel, 59, a skilled woodworker whose grandfather was a German harness maker married to a Colored woman. Wentzel's skin is the light tan of a man who has spent his lifetime working in the sun. But though he lives in a Colored suburb and is married to a Colored woman, Thomas Wentzel was reclassified as a native. "What can I do?" he asked hopelessly. The answer: very little...
...committee made the Colored turn his head this way and that, so they might examine his skull. They ran a comb through his hair to test 1) its woolliness and 2) its kinkiness. Eight minutes later, the young man was declared a native. A few days before, the same board had classified his brother as a Colored...