Word: waco
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...Waco, Texas...
...most Westerns, a shootout or some form of violence was expected in Jeffs' capture. The FBI had warned that Jeffs typically travels with armed bodyguards and some of his followers had vowed to die or kill for him. Nobody wanted another Waco. Catching Jeffs on the road, where he would have little protection outside his bodyguards, was the most favored approach. Since he is the only one allowed to perform marriages and is responsible for assigning wives to husbands, traveling was likely. It is unknown where Jeffs spent his time while hiding out, but he has ties to Texas, Colorado...
...even heard of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms until the Waco assault...
...Where are the subliminal messages?” Past BoC staples include Satanic symbolism, esoteric mathematical facts (what is “The Smallest Weird Number?”), creepy track and album lengths (“Geogaddi” was 66:06), repeated references to Waco cult leader David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, and muffled children giggling and counting out of order. Combine this with the seductive mystique of Hexagon Sun and the group’s appropriately secretive “Redmoon nights” of experimental music and bonfires in the lonely Scottish wilderness...
...letter on display, from the President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello’s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform before segregated audiences, and so Othello did not tour Baylor University, or, in fact, any Southern city. Even in Northern cities, segregation was such a fact of life that Robeson, although a national star, had trouble finding hotel accommodations in some cities...