Word: baddest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner. Instead, they sublimated their rage with elaborate "toasting sessions" at which they would spin tall tales about underdogs outfoxing their oppressors, or celebrate the likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...
...Ready to Kick Ass," the group originated, not in the streets of New York, but in the halls of Columbia University. Within a couple of years, the group had a national following, complete with network television spots, screaming throngs at concerts and appearances at rock festivals--even the biggest, baddest festival of them all, Woodstock...
...Imagine, the daughter of the President of the U.S. and the baddest man in the whole world," mused Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali after welcoming Susan Ford to his Maryland training quarters last week. Susan, 18, who had first met him at the White House last March, had come to see Ali before his title defense against third-ranked Heavyweight Jimmy Young. "I used to watch him box on television," she said of the champ. "I had no choice; my brothers used to watch, and we only had one TV set." She said she would like to have seen this fight...
...imagine I could be the smallest player in history," Henry Sandow, a senior halfback on the Harvard football team, says. "For my size, I'm certainly the baddest...
...circle, disqualifying him on approximately half of his allotted attempts. "I feel confined in that circle," he says. "I have to learn not to be intimidated by it." Perhaps, but it is Oldfield himself who is the big intimidator on the I.T.A. tour. "On my baddest days," he says, "I'm better than anyone else...