Word: boomeranged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro ghetto in Boston--the "black boomerang" in Roxbury--continues to grow, and today a significantly larger part of the Comfonwealth's Negro citizens live in this area than did a dozen years ago. These people must spend more money for poorer housing than other citizens and their children attend inferior schools because the Boston School Committee refuses to acknowledge the existence of de facto segregation...
...segregated Negro ghetto, a small, curved area in and around Roxbury sometimes called the "black boomerang," contains over half of the Negroes in Massachusetts. Most of these families pay much more for inadequate housing than do whites in better homes...
That is not quite right. Administration leaders, among them Bobby Kennedy, realize fully that a public purge might boomerang, bringing cries of Government interference and ensuring the re-election of Congressmen opposed to the New Frontier. Says Bobby of the purge possibility: "I was not born yesterday." But what the Administration does intend to do is squeeze its Southern critics-and squeeze them hard...
...Tariff of Abominations," as its enemies called it. But excessively high tariffs tend to choke off international trade and push up domestic prices, and the Tariff of Abominations stirred up impassioned opposition. South Carolina even enacted a Nullification Ordinance that declared the 1828 tariffs void within the state. The boomerang result of the 1828 Tariff Act was a freer-trade movement that prevailed in Congress from the early 1830s until the Civil War brought on a new surge of protectionism...
...inevitable, of course, that someone would invent a boomerang shaped like a space station, which can be flown by an eight-year-old. The someone is William C. Knox Jr., and all the indications are that he is about to become rich while the rest of the world ducks...