Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro prisoner in his jail, few in north Mississippi's red clay Yalobusha County expected much to come of it. But when a grand jury indicted Treloar for manslaughter, white citizens in the county seat of Water Valley moved fast. Remembering the "bad publicity" of the Emmett Till case three years before in neighboring Tallahatchie County (TIME, Oct. 3, 1955), they dissuaded Water Valley Negroes from hiring an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer, instead chipped in for a white attorney to act as the district attorney's special prosecutor...
...trial opened, 500 spectators jammed the county courthouse, saw the lawyers and Till-Case Circuit Judge Curtis Swango select an all-white jury. Nearly everyone in Water Valley (1950 pop. 3,213) knew the dead prisoner, Woodrow Wilson Daniel, 37. Many remembered him as a grocery delivery boy and as a dependable bootlegger for both races. Everyone also knew that Sheriff "Buster" Treloar, 36, who campaigned on a prohibition platform, had kept an eye on Daniel since Daniel, three months earlier, was acquitted of a bootlegging charge. And nearly everyone in town knew that Sheriff Treloar had hauled in Daniel...
...spontaneous prose": "No periods separating sentence structures already arbitrarily riddled by false colons and timid usually needless commas-but the vigorous space dash separating rhetorical breathing (as jazz musicians drawing breath between outblown phrases). No pause to think of proper word but the infantile pileup of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained. If possible write 'without consciousness' in semi-trance...
Every Southerner, he feels, must share the guilt of collective injustice done the Negro from the days of slavery through the era of segregation. He admits that he himself bore this burden of guilt lightly till his wife's untimely death in 1933, an event that seemed so personally unfair that it shocked him into a generalized awareness of injustices. It did not make him a blind believer in reform. He quotes with tacit approval an uncle who said: "Ideals are a sin. We should love...
...walking up to them and ordering them to follow him. Barking "Los" with all the crisp confidence of a drill instructor, he led his band on a raid of Koepenick's town hall, arrested the bumbling mayor and treasurer, walked off with the contents of the town till. Later, after Voigt gave himself up in return for a promise of getting his passport, the Kaiser was told about the escapade. Chuckling appreciatively, the Kaiser, according to the film, commented: "See, that's discipline. You won't find that anywhere else on earth...