Word: mandingos
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...Kakata is without almost everything else. At night, lights burn in just three houses, powered by privately owned generators. There is no water. The streets were once lively with Mandingo shops; now much of Kakata is burned and looted. Any Mandingo who did not manage to escape was "killed like a chicken," boasts a rebel. Every morning hundreds of people gather alongside the road, waiting for the occasional bus or truck to take them east to safety. If they are lucky, they will join 300,000 other refugees who have fled this war. "Doe started the killing 10 years...
...diverse as Ulrich B. Phillips, a staunch defender of the Confederacy, and Eugene Genovese, a Marxist, have convincingly shown that there was no widespread deliberate mating of slaves. This preposterous theory has nevertheless wormed its way into the collective consciousness through such classic works of pulp fiction as Mandingo. It is probably no coincidence that Kyle Onstott, creator of that lurid depiction of the couplings between and within the races on a fictional slave-rearing plantation, was also the author of The New Art of Breeding Better Dogs...
...high school football players ever makes it to the pros -- hardly good odds, as the Greek might put it. Those searching for a better life would be well advised to pour the energy they now focus on improving their slam dunks into hitting the books. Excluding, of course, Mandingo...
Washington and Denver go this way and that way to Super Bowl XXII. -- Requiem for Holmes. -- Mandingo and the Greek...
...sooner did the junta feel secure enough in victory to lift a 7 p.m. curfew than Managua burst into noisy life. Roadblocks at major intersections came down, and the streets filled with honking traffic. Restaurants and theaters showing old American films like Mandingo began to attract crowds. Radio Sandino, voice of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.), adjusted to the brand new beat: to its broadcasts of revolutionary anthems it added disco hits by the Bee Gees...