Word: footbath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football locker rooms are great places for signs-messages like KILL! KILL! KILL!, and USE FOOTBATH BEFORE SHOWERING, and DORIS-HU 4-6301. Come Nov. 8, when the Chicago Bears and the Baltimore Colts meet again at Wrigley Field, the bulletin board in the Bears' dressing room will carry another reminder. Clipped from a newspaper headline, it says, simply, 52-0-the score by which the Colts humiliated the world-champion Bears last week...
...intense, broody, mothering sort, keeps house for the pair. The black brother, Zachariah (James Earl Jones), is one of nature's children, open-faced and openhanded. He tends a park gate where he shoos away any colored child who tries to enter. Every night Morris readies a ritualistic footbath for Zach's raw, swollen feet. But in the realm of color, skin-deep is heartdeep and there is no balm for those abrasions...
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