Word: trespassings
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...segregated movie theaters. Although the marchers merely sang songs, clapped hands and did not enter the jail, the sheriff ordered them to leave in ten minutes. When Harriett Adderley and 106 others refused to go, the sheriff arrested them under a state law that makes it a crime to "trespass upon the property of another" with "a malicious and mischievous intent...
...irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a new form of trespass, a new invasion of privacy." The Dickensian poor may have had to make a virtue of propinquity, and the Latin races have historically prized it, but the upper middle classes in the U.S. find unwanted intimacy irritating. Unseen, but all too perfectly heard, are domestic strife (and bliss), digestive strains...
...years since Dolci's "reverse strike" won him prominence in the world press. He led a group of unemployed Sicilians out to repair a government road to their village and was imprisoned for trespass. He began in Trapetto, a no-hope town of 2,800, and improvised from day to day the program of action-religious, economic and political-that marks his movement today. He took on the Mafia, which controlled illegal trawler fleets that were robbing the local fishermen of their livelihood. He played the organ in church and criticized the parish priest for his refusal to allow...
...court tossed out Shuttles-worth's 180-day sentence for aiding and abetting sit-in violations of Birmingham's trespass ordinance...
...served side by side with whites at Krystal restaurants, a chain that sells 100 hamburgers all over town. Yet only 17 months ago, Connecticut College Coed Mardon Walker, 18, was considered such a menace when she joined a sit-in at a Krystal counter that she was arrested for trespass and hauled before Fulton County's terrible-tempered Judge Durward...