Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peculiar sense of values. It cannot stand the sight of nudity and lovemaking in public, labels them obscene and passes laws against them, but it rushes to pay huge sums for the "pleasure" of watching two people beat each other to a pulp or worse in the prizefight ring...
...Viva America! Only she could spend millions to see "two men whack at each other in a ring" and refuse support to a space program designed to increase man's knowledge of his world...
...Thanksgiving Cox asked Nixon for his daughter's hand. "Eddie was white as a sheet," Bebe Rebozo, who was standing by, recalled; her father, Tricia said, was "speechless for a moment-you know how fathers are." Since just before Christmas, Tricia has been sporting a diamond-and-sapphire ring, an heirloom first given to Cox's maternal grandmother. Eddie is 24, Tricia 25-only seven months apart...
...legal counsel to Reies Lopez Tijerina and his Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres, discussed the history of the land grants issue in New Mexico, tracing the laws concerning them from Spanish Colonial times, through the United States' aggressive actions on Mexico in 1845-1848, the Santa Fe Ring, the U. S. government's Court of Private Land Claims, up until the present. "Whereas the Indian still owns some of his land, the Chicano population, in one way or the other, has lost nearly all the land rightfully belonging to him," Higgs said...
Outside of the ring, Johnson was equally uncontrollable, and, to the extent of his considerable capabilities, continued his game of identity exchange. White society had claimed and legislated the irrelevancy of a black man, but Jack Johnson proved the converse. To do so, however, meant that he had to take punches as well as give them. After the Jeffries fight, Johnson opened up a nightclub, the Cabaret de Champion, outfitted in classical opulence, with a Rembrandt in its valuable art exhibit. In a passionate display of righteousness that must have overdrawn their moral account for the next half-century...