Word: raping
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...back of every Southern white man's head lies a mortal dread that some night, somehow, some crazy black man will lay hands on his wife or daughter, rape her, kill her, or both. For the white man, eternal vigilance over his womenfolk is impractical, impossible. And such crimes as he mortally fears do happen. One happened near Birmingham, Ala. last week...
Thus last week did the case of eight blackamoors, condemned to death for rape, take on its first international aspect. Beginning with the same violent methods at U. S. embassies and consulates. Reds made the Sacco-Vanzetti case a world issue...
...behalf of the condemned. Although ready with praise for the State's having made "every honest effort to give the accused a fair trial," these groups claimed: 1) that a fair trial was impossible under the circumstances; 2) that physicians were unable to find conclusive evidence of rape on the girls; 3) that the girls were bad, anyway...
...carry the insignia of that austere and serious age which, now ignorantly identified with the flippancies of a decadent court, preceded and precipitated the French Revolution. Large somber canvases, they exclude flippancy and tell, with a dignified and almost Alexandrine rhythm, the most ennobling dramas of classical history-The Rape of the Sabines, Leonidas at Thermopylae, The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, The Grief of Andromache and, most somber and perhaps imposing of all, the Death of Socrates-called, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ''the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze of Raphael...
Under international law Dr. Leiva could collect handsome damages from the U. S. Government for his injuries and the rape of his liquor storeroom. Following U. S. precedent, he might even land Salvadorean marines in Washington to safeguard Salvadorean life & property. Good-humored, he took no action, made no claim...