Word: trespassed
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...colonial seaports, about the true spirit of the American Revolution "a civil war," he calls it, reluctantly entered upon by men who "were thinking of preserving and securing the freedom they already enjoyed." Yet he is oddly disappointing on the Civil War, and some of his afterthoughts seem to trespass on his earlier writings; one of his new judgments comes perilously close to being an apologia for slavery when he points out that the slaves in America were really better off than they had been in Africa...
...proved to be Mordecai Luk, 31, a Moroccan-born Jew who had immigrated to Israel in 1949, did his army service, married and fathered four children, and took up two professions: carpentry and crime. He has a record of five convictions, on charges ranging from forgery to criminal trespass. In 1961 he slipped out of Israel to Egypt and began an equally unsavory new existence making anti-Israel broadcasts over Radio Cairo...
Edward J. Barshak, who represented five of the seven defendants claimed in his summation that as the demonstrators had not been directly ordered to leave, they could not properly be charged with trespass. He pointed out that those arresed had left the other branches of the Bick when ordered to, and suggested that there must have been some sort of "misunderstanding...
...Supreme Court, in a busy, term-ending week, had just invalidated the trespass convictions of 42 civil rights sit-in demonstrators in three Southern states. And the long-awaited civil rights bill would surely be signed into law by President Johnson on or about July...
Last summer Pye launched a one-man crusade against sit-ins. Thundering that Georgia's antitrespass law had been "flouted, defied and violated," he ordered indictments prepared in 101 civil rights trespass cases, some dating back to 1961. Pye set bail as high as $20,000; where defendants had already been released on bonds of $300 or $500, he upped the ante to $3,000 or more, explaining that he "acted on my own motion." Then he began meting out ferocious sentences. His most famed was six months in jail and a year at hard labor for Connecticut College...