Word: tarring
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...court decision has set in motion some of the evil forces and evil actions which are too reminiscent of our dark est days. Councils have sprung up throughout the South that are, despite the feelings of their respectable sponsors, nothing more than uptown Ku Klux Klans, using instead of tar and feathers and the lash the equally destructive economic pressure. They say they are dedicated to the idea of defeating desegregation "by means short of violence." But already the spirit of violence has manifested itself...
...least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple and writhe in agony in the bubbling, flaming tar." But after four days and nights, the city of Harrington has the A-bomb licked...
...both Pierre Poujade and the Communists were well pleased. Poujade was quite willing to accept ejection of his men by the Assembly if he could capitalize on it in the country. Communists were delighted to proclaim a crusade against the "reactionary, fascist right," and hoping to tar the moderate right of Antoine Pinay with the Poujade brush. The net result of the brawling was to make the democratic parties of the center seem helpless and ineffectual...
...more than 600 fights the Boston Tar Baby hammered out his living with his fists. Stanley Ketchel, Harry Wills, Gunboat Smith-Sam held his own with them all. Even after an unlucky punch cost him the sight of one eye and cataracts dimmed the other, Sam fought on. In Mexico City, in 1923, he had to say to his seconds, "Just point me straight at him," before he could shuffle across the ring toward his opponent and lash out wildly to win the heavyweight championship of Mexico...
...feel sorry for old Sam," he said. "I had plenty of good times. I been all over the world. I fought maybe five, 600 fights, and every one was a pleasure." When he died in a Cambridge nursing home last week (by then, Sam figured he was 76), the Tar Baby's pockets were as empty as ever, and his long record was almost empty of titles. But men who had seen Sam Langford fight still ranked him right up with the best...