Word: hustlin
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...after furnishing evidence that he has physically injured somebody. In what is close to a war zone, ghetto residents often eat and sleep on the floor to avoid the stray bullets whizzing through their windows. Joe, 17, a former Crip who has gone straight because he is tired of "hustlin'," says he was always stalking a rival gang member or a potential robbery victim. "Whenever I was shootin' [had a gun], I had someone in mind. If I couldn't get him, I'd get his partner or a substitute." He regrets a murder for which...
...school. For its 300 mostly country-raised students, Campbell boasts a library of 3,000 books. It operates on a budget of $131,000, about half provided by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. For the rest, says President Robert M. Stevens, "we just have to do a lot of hustlin'." Now gifts are vanishing. Campbell is solidly behind civil rights agitation in the nearby town of McComb. Says Stevens wryly: "I could raise half a million in no time if we suddenly began promoting the idea of segregation...
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