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Word: unmerciful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...station, the gang raged on, beat up another man, slugged 16-year-old Howard Weiner unconscious with a bottle, then pummeled him unmerci fully. Suddenly a young Negro bystander shouted, "The police are coming!" The boy who shouted, an 18-year-old Mississippian newly arrived in New York and identified by police only as "Larry," was simply trying to help Weiner by scaring away the gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Terror on the Trains | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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