Word: garveyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roxbury, he might well have felt that he had enough problems to deal with without expulsion from school, problems that have continued through all the years that all the campaign stickers, now shreds of paper flying in the morning wind, have built up on the side of the Marcus Garvey House a few blocks up the hill from Dudley Station--"Vote White," "Vote Kennedy," "Let's Do It Again, Elect Bill Owens" (the state senator). Even with desegregation, Boston inner-city residents will have to cope with their version of the ills that have caused all races to flee Detroit...
...Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa, domestic politics or Jamaica's national hero, Marcus Garvey...
...Moore had two more opportunities to redeem herself Saturday afternoon, and she used them well. First, she disposed of Williams's Jane Garvey, 3-1, and then downed Princeton's Cindy Sutter...
...Garvey visited the set, Tatum didn't recognize him. "Are you a baseball player or what?" she asked. "He sure must play something," she said to a fellow teammate. "Look at those shoulders...
Then, on Wednesday evening, the action shifted to New York City. The owners' Management Council got together with Garvey, player representatives from the Giants and Jets, and chief Federal Mediator W.J. Usery Jr. After laboring through the night, the owners and players finally agreed to a proposal that resembled the owners' first offer to the Patriots, with two major differences: 1) the owners promised to present their new bargaining offer on Monday rather than Thursday; 2) Usery guaranteed that the offer would be substantial. By Thursday afternoon the Giants, Jets, Redskins and Lions had returned to camp. That...