Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here trace the renegade?s progress from editing the sports pages of his Air Force?base magazine, through a stint as a TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, 'Hell's Angels,' in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes. "If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more...
Eastern boasts of its diversity and its high college acceptance rates. But between those two stats lies a strict color line. Ashong and his best friend were the only two black students in Advanced Placement courses, and his parents had to argue with the administration to get him into those classes...
...first glance, Ashong appears to be a typical American college student. He wears a black leather jacket and chunky loafers. He loves rap and Prince and "In Living Color." He has pool parties each summer. His accent--long a's and clipped o's--is buried beneath student slang and an Afro-American inflection...
Earlier in the century, when sewage pipes were draining directly into the Charles, the river gained infamous national status for its brown color with a pop hit's refrain that claimed Boston residents "love that dirty water...
...Just to state the credentials upon which I could make this analysis: I began covering the hockey team in February of '93, starting with The Crimson as a reporter and columnist and then branching out to do play-by-play and color commentary for WHRB. I think I've seen Harvard play between 90 and 100 times in person--nearly 6,000 minutes of competitive hockey...