Word: ugliest
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...weather was warming up and so, inevitably, were the race demonstrations. Among spring's first and ugliest was the one in Jacksonville, Fla., last week. There, the violence seemed to be caused in almost equal parts by the numskullery of a politically ambitious mayor and by the hooliganism of Negro teenagers...
...Jamaican massacre was one of the ugliest episodes in the history of the British Empire. Even so, in an earlier era it would probably have passed unnoticed by the homeland. But in the England that Queen Victoria presided over for so long and controlled so little, democracy was on the rise. Radicals, who were demanding universal suffrage and an end to upper-class privilege, decided to make an issue of Eyre. How well they succeeded is the subject of this book...
...other cities, too, in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., racial strife receded as whites and Ne groes tried to resolve their conflicts at negotiating tables instead of in the streets. The ugliest racial disorders of the week, ironically, occurred in New York, the great melting pot, a city of minorities, a city that years ago enacted laws forbidding discrimination in housing and employment. Negro demonstrators protesting job discrimination in the construction industry marched and picketed, knelt in the mud at construction sites, sat in front of bulldozers, singing
...Yahoo!" the wing-mustached old saddle tramp yelled, reining up in the startled dude resort of Warbag, Colo. "I'm Scandalous John McCanless, and I've got the prettiest daughter, the fastest horse, and the ugliest partner in the district, and I'm a ring-tailed screamer lookin' for a fight...
Then the police charged the peaceful seated crowds, causing one of the ugliest scenes in South Viet Nam's three-months-old Buddhist crisis...