Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between the eras of La Guardia and Koch there is a lot of relevant New York City history, including black and Puerto Rican immigration, the strengthening of the unions, the demise of the political bosses...
...father was a mulatto, his mother Puerto Rican, and she remarried into a family in which the color line got crossed so many times that it turned into a sort of soft, beige blur. That condition may be fine for discussion in a sociology seminar, but it is rough in a classroom and punishing on the playground. Jeffreys was Roman Catholic, but the other Catholic kids would not hang out with him because he was black. The neighborhood blacks kept away from him because his skin was too light. He found a couple of Jewish friends but was forbidden...
Nineteen-year-old Jesse Vassallo--who set the U.S. Open and American record two weeks ago at the NCAA Championships--won the 400 IM in a relatively slow 4:50.31 to set a new Blodgett standard. Most interesting about the race, however, was the performance by fellow Puerto Rican Ricardo Prado, a 16-year-old, who in his first appearance in the Nationals top eight chased Vassallo to a second-place finish...
...recently retired Victor, sibling rivalry with Jesse has never been intense. Even when the brothers were on opposing squads at the 1979 Pan Am Games, with Jesse representing the United States and Victor swimming with the host Puerto Rican team, the two were each other's biggest boosters...
...present conflict in Puerto Rican politics is between the pro-state and the pro-commonwealth factions, which command equal support, Morales said, adding that the independence movement has only 5- to 6-per-cent of the vote in the Puerto Rican legislature...