Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moralistic minority. On March 10, 1823, "A large shower bath belonging to Dorr [a "Black"] was taken from the fourth story of Stoughton, and having been filled with wood, etc. was burnt at midnight in the middle of the College Yard in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Blacklist...
...senior, said Mr. Test approached him after the exam, waving his test form and telling him he had to fill in his name and couldn't cancel his score on the verbal section. Reinheimer said he ripped up his exam and then panicked as Mr. Test allegedly threatened to blacklist him with the Educational Testing Service...
...Chen raised funds for a dissident Taiwanese magazine. Friends say he was not especially active in politics, though he believed Taiwan was overdue for democratization. It was apparently too much for his government. "The problem is you just don't know what it takes to get on the blacklist," says New Yorker Wang. "They're so paranoid it doesn't take much." Says a businessman who demanded anonymity: "I still consider Taiwan my home, but I wouldn't go back. I don't want to become the next Dr. Chen...
...from a high of $150 in 1975. Superstar trial lawyers like Boston's F. Lee Bailey and San Francisco's Melvin Belli regularly command flat fees that work out to as much as $300 an hour. New York's Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry Faulk and major corporations in the film industry, commands a phenomenal $350 an hour, thus earning the equivalent of the nation's median annual income in approximately 44 hours. Admits former Watergate Special Prosecutor James F. Neal, now practicing law in Nashville: "Frankly...
...integrated that participants should be allowed to compete internationally. The same has been said of soccer, and a French team of inquiry felt likewise about boxing. Though South Africa's national pastime, rugby, remains aggressively white, the Springboks squad now has one mulatto player. However admirable the blacklist may be, many South Africans fear that it threatens to undo this progress. Warns the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "There will be a tendency to say 'To hell with it all, we might as well forget about mixed sport and international contacts and play the game as we wish...