Word: kinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they tried to shield him from racial prejudice, Young recalls: "I was taught to fight when people called me Nigger, and that's when I learned negotiating was better than fighting." After going to Howard University and Hartford Seminary Foundation, he eventually moved to Atlanta to work with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1972, after one unsuccessful campaign, he was elected to Congress from a predominantly white Atlanta district...
...stand-in for Kennedy in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. The dominant topics, instead, were inflation and energy. "What specific steps do the President and Congress plan to take about inflation?" asked Selig Bernstein of Chatham. The shirt-sleeved Senator drew chuckles by replying: "If I were king and I controlled the world, inflation would be easy...
...minute work cycles) for this, and for lectures by Bo and Peep. The Two proclaim that Bo has been Jesus, Elijah and Moses in his former lives. The spacecraft is imminently expected. It will carry believers to an enigmatic "garden" where they will get "energy" from their coequal, the King of Kings, alias Chief of Chiefs, the god who created planet earth. Believers will live eternally in hairless, toothless bodies that are free of disease and decay. Groll scoffs about possible parallels between the camp discipline and the tragic end of Jonestown: "Anyone can walk away. We just have...
...down payment, Richie must go to the Mafia, where he is quickly impaled on the meat hooks of 243-lb. Albert ("King Kong") Karpstein, a.k.a. The Animal, a.k.a. Milky, for his diet of Milky Way chocolate bars. A part-time enforcer for Joe Hobo, a.k.a. Joe Hoboken, a.k.a. Joseph lacovelli, the simian Karpstein is a semidemented Jew whose appeal to his Italian bosses lies in the imagination and diligence he brings to his work. He would as soon see his creditors default as pay, for the added diversion of carving them up. But Milky is also an independent Shylock...
...euphoria, Richie acquires a one-seventh part of an expensive call girl and recovers some of the old Giants swagger. Inevitably his deal with the city dies, and Richie faces a similar fate at the hands of King Kong. Flynn is saved temporarily because of a minor Mafia dispute. A more permanent salvation is offered by the FBI and an ambitious new special prosecutor, Hamilton Wainwright IV, who has vowed to rip out the "cancer" of organized crime. They want Richie to sing...