Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very happy I could do in both games what I wanted," said Kasparov, who hasn't lost a tournament since 1981. "In the first game, with black, I played quietly. In the second game, I tried to crush it in the opening...
This year's campaign, winding to a close, should have satisfied even the most disputative of New Yorkers. The Republicans are offering former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, while the Democrats are offering David Dinkins, potentially New York's first Black mayor. Meanwhile, current Mayor Ed Koch faces a slight difficulty--specifically, he'll soon be out of work...
FANS of big, thick black headlines have had a lot to be happy about in the last week or so. First, the stock market threatened to crash, and then the earth in California quaked. That's the most disaster that American newspapers have had to play with since the Challenger explosion. And both of last week's stories included double coverage potential: the business and sports sections, respectively, got to echo the front page...
Representative John Lewis (D-Ga.) said that Hispanics--like Blacks--are victims of racism, but historical and cultural differences make it difficult for them to be part of the Rainbow Coalition, a predominantly Black organization that promotes equal rights for minorities...
Paul Wieck, a writer for The New Republic, said that the Hispanic community responds to different issues and concerns than the Black community and as a result would not really fit in as part of the Rainbow Coalition. "A major reason [for these differences]...is that the Hispanic community is more in the pattern of a Catholic ethnic group than a minority...