Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scarier than Stephen King, larger than Big Bird, more outspoken than the young Cassius Clay and one of the best basketball players...
...that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process of shucking off so-called slave names, commonly in favor of names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...
...Caesar is fallen, proclaimed Cassius...
...government's hostility to the 75-year-old A.N.C. stems in part from that organization's attempts to undermine the apartheid system through a campaign of sporadic terrorism. Now there is increasing evidence that Pretoria is engaged in a campaign of retaliation against the A.N.C.'s leadership. Last month Cassius Make, a member of the A.N.C.'s national executive council who was visiting Swaziland, was gunned down by assassins. According to A.N.C. officials, Make was the eighth congress member or sympathizer to be killed in Swaziland this year; an additional six have been abducted to South Africa. In the most...
...journey that did not lead Bombeck to the moon began in Dayton, and the date could be set accurately enough as June 4, 1936. She was nine, and that was the day her father, a crane operator named Cassius Fiste, died of a heart attack at 42. "One day you were a family," she recalls, "living in a little house at the bottom of a hill. The next day it was all gone." The furniture, including Erma's bed and dresser, was immediately repossessed, and her half sister went off to live with her natural mother. Erma...