Word: milked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Legs spread wide and a basketball-laden arm arced high, a kid soars through the air of the Crenshaw High School gymnasium into the waiting arms of two grinning teammates, who heave him up toward the rim. The basketball slams haplessly off the forward edge to the roar of "Milk! Milk! Milk!" "You wait for Milk to dunk," quips teammate Jonathan Stokes, "you'll be waiting every game...
...stereotype, and the players know it, which is why they poke fun at it. "Milk" is David Meriwether, 17, 5 ft., 11 in., a junior whose mere presence at the Los Angeles school dropped more jaws than his first dunk ever could. When Meriwether steps onto the court for Crenshaw's first regular-season game this week, he will become the first white basketball player in the school's 30-year history. In a preview of the anticipated pandemonium, Meriwether's introduction at a recent preseason scrimmage prompted more than 1,000 students to stomp and chant his politically incorrect...
...commandments: one ritual and one ethical. The ethical list is the one that we have become familiar with. The ritual version includes such commandments as "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice on anything leavened" and "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk...
...operation. It was a hamburger restaurant, though not of the drive-in variety popular at the time. People had to get out of their cars to be served. The brothers had produced a very limited menu, concentrating on just a few items: hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, soft drinks and milk shakes, all at the lowest possible prices...
...Depression dust bowl of Oklahoma and Missouri, where he showed early signs of powerful ambition: Eagle Scout at an improbably young age and quarterback of the Missouri state-champion high school football team. He earned money to help his struggling family by throwing newspapers and selling milk from the cow. After graduating from the University of Missouri, he served in the Army during World War II. Then, like millions of others, he returned home in 1945 to earn a living and raise a family in an uncertain peacetime economy...