Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jocks' second platoon was led by the sterling play of 6-ft. 5-in. Financial Aid Officer John "Too-Tall" Morgan, a Detroit University forward in the early '60s. Morgan contributed 16 points to the winning cause with some tantalizing full-court rushes to the basket, completely overpowering his peerless adversaries...
...Dmytro Stroicz Detroit...
...appeared to many as a sinister force for racial hostility. Their leader, Elijah Muhammad, preached a weird doctrine that the race of "white devils" had been created from blacks, and that Allah had assumed bodily form in the person of W.D. Fard, a mysterious black itinerant who preached in Detroit until he vanished in 1934. The great annual event was "Savior's Day," the cult's Christmas, which celebrated the advent of Fard...
...herculean performances this season were a 63-ft. 2 1/2-in. first place against Army, a 63-ft. 8-in. in the IC4As, and a somewhat disappointing ("I wanted to throw a 64 or 65") 62-ft. 11-in., for a sixth place slot in yesterday's Nationals, held in Detroit...
...emergence of a fresh willingness to challenge the custodians of arcane technical knowledge on their own ground. It is most conspicuously embodied in the environmental crusade and the consumers' rebellion, but is also at play across a far wider field. It applies public light and political heat to Detroit's automotive engineers, who for generations had dispatched their products to an acquiescent public. It encompasses protests against the location of dams massively certified by science, opposition to the erection of nuclear power plants declared to be safe and sound, open disputes about the real values of scientifically approved...