Word: pinkney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mary Pinkney ("Pinky") MacArthur should have worn stars herself. Few mothers have fought harder for their sons than she fought for Douglas, or dominated them so completely. When he was about to take his exams for West Point, she gave him a pep talk that he never forgot: "You must believe in yourself, my son, or no one else will believe in you." Naturally, he passed and, just as naturally, his mother moved to Craney's Hotel near his dormitory, where for four years she could see the lamp in her son's window and tell whether...
...winter that is hurting the economy is also bringing suffering and tragedy to countless Americans. Two elderly men, Pinkney Carson, 66, and Herman Jackson, 62, were found frozen to death in unheated rooms in a New York City residential hotel. A furnace boiler had failed, and the men had huddled under thin blankets as water froze in glasses and ice formed on the cracked plaster of their tenement. In rural Georgia, three young brothers, Timmy Schuler, 11, Brian, 9, and Kirt, 7, romped on a pond covered with ice that had come South with the Northern winter. Timmy...
...concession speech, school superintendent Pinkney said this loss--his second in a race against Perk--will not stop his efforts to show that "black folks will someday be somebody...
During the campaign, Pinkney charged Perk with not doing enough to stop crime in the city, while the mayor responded that he stood by his record and had balanced the city's budget...
...vote total at midnight was Perk 97,892 and Pinkney...