Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fielding a nearly all-Black team, Thompson probably brought smiles to the faces of Jimmy "The Greek" and Al Campanis. On many courts across America, Blacks are always picked before whites simply because they're Black. It's a sad fact that the darker your skin, the higher you will get picked...
...open romance with a younger woman has already earned him a national tongue-lashing, but there seems to be no end to the abuse Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou is willing to suffer in the name of love. While in London awaiting open-heart surgery, Papandreou, 69, announced last week that he would seek a divorce from Margaret, his American-born wife of 37 years, when he returns to Athens. In Britain the Greek leader has been photographed holding hands with Olympic Airways Flight Attendant Dimitra Liani...
Nesty was beating Jimmy "the Greek" Synder. In January of 1988, Synder, then working as an NFL forecaster, stereotyped Blacks when he said Blacks were "bred...
...flip side of the optimism of the immigrants' story is the paranoia that the mass of Americans' harbor toward those who are different. As quickly as they can be stirred by the story of the son of Greek immigrants, they can be frightened when reminded that he is, after all, not named Smith, Jones or even Bush...
...will notice that in recent weeks Dukakis has not mentioned his father too often (the first Greek ever to go to Harvard Medical School), or the pride he takes in his ancestors' homeland, or his favorite Greek expressions...