Word: massa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue with those who said poor whites should be given the same help as blacks. "There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white," Marshall said. He could be bitingly acerbic, falling into slave dialect and calling the other Justices "Massa." In 1980, when the University of Maryland Law School dedicated its new library to him, Marshall wouldn't attend the ceremony. The school was just "trying to salve its conscience for excluding the Negroes," he said. As the court grew colder to civil rights, he did little to hide...
...Larry Roller, president of Save Our State Song, commenting on Virginia's anthem about a freed slave who longs to be reunited with his "massa and missis...
Thirty-five of the 120 biotech companies that have sprouted up in Massa-chusetts over the past decade are based in Cambridge, making the city an important center for the industry and the industry a significant economic group in the city...