Word: aas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March on Washington is sponsored by the New Mobilization Committee, aa coalition of over 200 different organizations, but the SMC is considered the main organizer of the Washington protest...
Outside Amman, children, aged eight to twelve, from the Baq'aa refugee camp, are trained in commando techniques. They are given rigorous calisthenics and obstacle-course training, taught to handle rifles and machine guns, and instructed where the larynx, heart, liver and intestines are located, the better to thrust a dagger in the right place. Daughters of dead fedayeen are sent to schools run by the "Martyr Family Welfare Service," where they are taught to chant: "I have broken mv chains. I am the daughter of Fatah! We are all commandos." Refugee women are trained in first...
...chattels of major league clubs who are then replaced by other hopefuls if they do not make it to the big club in three or four years. No longer is there room for the player who does not have big-league possibilities but can do quite well in Class AA for 10 or even 15 years. I listened with incredulity during spring training of 1964 as a major league scout, wearing a Banlon and Bermuda shorts in the box seats of Al Lopez Field in Tampa, said the death of the minors was an act of mercy...
...played in, in hitting, but he never quite made it with the Washington Senators. So he had settled in the high minor leagues and now, at 34, he sat on a stool in a hamburger joint in Augusta, Ga., and said the current season with the Charlotte Hornets (Class AA Sally League) was his last because his legs and his eyes were gone...
...black courses....And I've done my best to set up a good reading list. It never occurred to me to check whether the authors were black or white. And if I had it to over again, I wouldn't make that check. I'm not trying to follow aa line...