Word: pettigrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta. "Racism is to America what Catholicism is to the Vatican. Racism is the religion, and violence is its liturgy to carry it out." More thoughtful observers are less dogmatic. "What causes racism is the most researched question in all of American social science in 80 years," says Thomas Pettigrew, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The basic answer is that people still fear strangers or anyone who looks different, and many nations and ethnic groups (not excluding blacks) suffer the same disease in one form or another...
...Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night of the week...
Tendler's second goal of the game came with five minutes gone in the second half. By that time, Gobillot had been replaced with second-string goalie Dan Pettigrew...
Tendler wasted no time testing the new netminder and slipped a shot from 10 feet past the diving Pettigrew...
Saves: P, Dan Pettigrew, 8; P. Jack Hergenrother, 1; H, Matt Ginsburg...