Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back of a closet at my parents' house hangs my wrinkled and musty barong. In the six years since my father, a Filipino immigrant who married a WASP from Connecticut, brought it back from his home town, I haven't put it on even once...
THOMAS WAS born in an Oakland navel hospital in 1970. For what he's heard, his mother was a 15-year-old prostitute. His father was Filipino, or Chinese, or something, possibly amilitary man of some sort. Thomas doesn't lose alot of sleep over his natural parents. His adoptive family is interesting enough...
...defense would have the jury. Ten members were white -- six men and four women. Of the two non-whites, both women, one was Hispanic, one Filipino. Ranging in age from 38 to 65, the panel included a maintenance worker, a printer, a retired teacher and a retired real estate broker. Three of the jurors had worked as security guards or patrol officers in the U.S. military. Three others were members of the National Rifle Association. One was the brother of a retired L.A. police sergeant...
...YEARS AGO: TURNING POINT. Having surrendered to the Japanese, 72,000 gaunt, exhausted U.S. and Filipino troops marched to prison camps on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942. Malnourished and subjected to repeated beatings, 10,000 men died en route. Days after the Bataan Death March began, the tide started to shift for Allied forces. On April 18, 1942, Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle staged a daring aerial raid on Tokyo. Last week surviving raiders gathered in Columbia, S.C., for an annual tribute to the six Americans who died as a result of the attack...
...little later, at a Tomba press conference, the second -- and most successful -- Filipino athlete in Winter Games history giggles with unstoppable delight at everything the champion says. Teruel is thinking now, he says, of trying for the Summer Games. "I know it's unrealistic," he adds with a sheepish smile, "but when something's unrealistic, I really...