Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrash Jack Johnson good and proper. Like many Americans, they considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring. Regarded as a curiosity at first, the Pottawatomie Plowboy gradually overcame most of his awkwardness and, by virtue of a lethal right uppercut, four years later won the chance to meet Johnson...
...Dempsey described the first round: "I hit him with a left hook on his cheek bone and temple. It busted his eye open and down he went, shaking the ring like an earthquake. I felt like I wanted to get down there on the deck on top of him and beat him some more. But then he started to get up. I stood right over him and beat him to the canvas again. And again. And again. These were the rules in those days...
...Does TV cause riots? Are children growing insensitive to brutality because of crime programs? So went the questions put last week by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower. The commission, in effect, wondered whether TV is the mirror or the molder of society. After three days of hearings, it wound up with a full range of conflicting answers...
...York Times Reporter David Burnham, who cruised the streets in the early morning seeking their hideaways. He found police cruisers on back streets, under bridges and in parks-all with their occupants slouched inside. Some of them even took pillows and alarm clocks with them when they went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled: "You'd tell the guys to stay awake, to listen to the radio, but they'd just ignore you." A patrolman who had to drive all the way across his precinct to answer...
...that the dominant theme of Kelley's dance "taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest," is "utterly without redeeming social value" and affronts "contemporary community standards." In fact, said the justices, the state had failed to introduce expert testimony to prove that Kelley's act went beyond the community's standards of decency...