Word: heraldically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defeat at the hands of Harvard's Ivy League championship team this fall weren't enough, Yale's football team has suffered another demoralizing blow. In honor of April Fool's Day, the weekly Yale Herald's March 27 issue features a front-page story announcing plans for the demolition of the Yale Bowl...
...news. I can remember Harry bursting through the night traffic on Broadway to seize several copies of the New York Times hot off the delivery wagon. We would gather as many papers as possible and retire to a quick-lunch counter to read them. Harry always gave me the Herald Tribune, with the remark, "Here, Russ, you read the Tribune. It's always a day late anyway." Whenever anything was discovered, either Harry or Brit would lunge for the telephone booth and dictate corrections to the proof room...
Witnessed Miami Herald Reporter Earni Young: "A late-model green car--I think it might have been a Chevrolet Impala--deliberately drove over one of the bodies. I think I saw it rip the man's arm off. The crowd cheered and yelled...
Unfortunately, these momentous changes simply herald a transformation in anti-black prejudice, not an end to it. Negative stereotypes about African-Americans remain widespread. One major national survey showed some 78 percent of whites perceived blacks as more likely to "prefer" living off of welfare, 65 percent perceived blacks as lazier than whites, 58 percent said blacks were more violence-prone and 56 percent said that blacks were less intelligent than whites. What is more, most whites blame blacks themselves, or African-American culture, for any remaining social disadvantages that blacks face. No doubt this helps explain the almost rabidly...
AUSTRALIA "There has been quite a tradition of American feminists tolerating in their elected allies behaviour that would in other circumstances earn condemnation and even ostracism." --Anne Summers, Sydney Morning Herald...