Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lauderdale (where, in the lull of the eye's passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...
...rehired) stenographers almost daily, roared epithets at underlings. He was a master at political conniving. He engaged in feuds with City Hall reporters, once had a New York Times man tailed, and triumphantly told the reporter's boss that he was spending some of his working time at race tracks. Once, in his fury against bookmakers, he asked children to tattle to him when their fathers gambled. He had the candor to admit his shortcomings: "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut...
...lesson another Robinson-soft-shoe dancing Bojangles* -once laid down while acting as the unofficial Mayor of Harlem. Bojangles' formula: "Do the best you can with what you've got . . . and get along with the white folks." Jackie had no desire to be a martyr for his race; he was just a young fellow anxious to make a living as a ballplayer. Though he barely knew Joe Louis, he sought him out for advice. He got an earful which boiled down to three words: "Don't get cocky...
Except for his 1926 appearance as Messala, Ramon Novarro's competition in the Ben-Hur chariot race, and a brief bit in Wilson, Bushman never appeared on the screen again. But in the last 16 years he has played 2,500 bit parts in just about anything radio had to offer, from Red Ryder to One Man's Family...
Termination of "superior race theory ... particularly in our southern states," and placing "our social idealists and out students of human rights into political office, "were also advocated by the astronomer...