Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, Columbia discovered their star forward, Fred Sock, who moves like a "whistling chaser" firecracker, would be marked one-on-one by Matt Bowyer. Throughout the game, the Lions could not buy a break from the refs. And on top of all that, there was this guy Nelson.
Roxbury, Sept 10-This predominantly black neighborhood of Boston came to life peacefully and uneventfully in this, the third day of the third year under the city's court-ordered desegregation plan. As the familiar and unattractive yellow vehicles marked "School Bus" and the occasional roving police cars bounced along...
The FTC also feared that Kennecott's purchase of Peabody marked a trend toward competition-crushing bigness in the coal business. But Peabody's share of total U.S. coal output has remained steady: about 12%. Meanwhile, since 1968, the proportional market share of the eight biggest coal companies...
In the three years since the overthrow of the Marxist Allende government, according to respected church sources, an estimated 1,000 Chileans have been tortured to death by the ruthlessly efficient secret police, the DINA. In one wave of arrests 18 months ago 2,000 people were brought in; 370...
The interrogator's need to be respected by his victims is one notable feature of a vague, inchoate subculture that exists in every country where torture is an established practice. This shadowy netherworld is marked most obviously by a mocking language of euphemisms and code words. Some former prisoners report...