Word: gammon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student in the U.S., Zik stretched his father's money by working at odd jobs. Besides working in Gammon's Restaurant on Pittsburgh's Liberty Avenue and as a sparring partner for one of the thumb-poking Zivic brothers, he once unwittingly signed on as a coal miner, found himself strikebreaking. He still thinks the U.S. "a country of opportunities for ambitious, energetic young people...
...Whip. Cried Cincinnati's energetic Preacher R. Gammon Morris: "I am for war. I am an American, I am a Methodist, and I am a Negro. . . . Jesus Christ, when things got into confusion, didn't stand up in the temple and preach to men that after a while things would be all right. ... He went and got Him a whip. I declare to you that it is time for us to get a whip and stay by that whip until totalitarianism has been driven from the face of the earth...