Word: merediths
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...South was filled with agitation and change. There were riots at the all-white University of Mississippi when a black man named James Meredith tried to enroll. Two people were killed. Kennedy was forced to call out federal troops to install Meredith in the university. In Birmingham, Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor turned loose police dogs upon a march led by King. The news photographs of that spectacle-the fire hoses and the snapping dogs and the beefy Southern lawmen-outraged Americans and turned the public mood. In the spring of 1963 there were 2,000 civil rights...
...Meredith expressed no low-down country sorrow, however, for quarterbacks. "The higher you climb the flagpole," he said, "the more people see your rear end." Now, that is Texas...
...drugs have been added to the holy coordinates of football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi-Tough, barbecue sauce, insurance, computers, oil and (on third down) shotguns. Before the game last week at suburban and palatial Texas Stadium, former Cowboy Quarterback-turned-Broadcaster Don Meredith was missing the seedy and inner-city Cotton Bowl, where the Cowboys used to play, and generally lamenting the passing of time. "I made up a saying once," he said. " 'All we gotta do is go down to Neiman-Marcus and buy us a pound of culture and twelve...
...Rocky IX. Sylvester Stallone et al. In a 15-round split decision, Rocky regains crown from Burgess Meredith...
...Meredith Brown, the author of the resolution, said the separation of the LSC from COSEP "is more than an administrative change, it's a reflection of a nationwide trend to the right...