Word: sambo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's ethnic groups, Beyond the Melting Pot. With the same careful eye that he was later to focus on the Ne gro family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful. "Paddy and Sambo are the same people," says Moynihan -both from rural, unschooled backgrounds, both shattered by urban experiences, both falling into patterns of drink and violence...
...trades her little blue dress for her life. And so it goes, as tropical stripteaser Little White Squibba faces more perils than Pauline. Squibba is the heroine of a just-published British children's book by the late Helen Bannerman, famed for her 1899 classic Little Black Sambo. The manuscript had been in her lawyer's safe for 20 years. But why is Squibba white? The author never lets on. After Sambo's fabulous success, there had followed a whole Bannerman series of Little Black books: Mingo, Bobtail, Quasha and Quibba. Whatever her color, Squibba loves...
With an experienced smirk, Portfolio expressed his educated delight. "Samuel Tech played a beautifully judged game. we was murdered, and we deserved it. By the way, did you see how Billy Oval-tine destroyed our sneak forward-to-half bumper with those circular drops? Masterful!" (Ovaltine is the Sambo's all-East ace borderback...
...dissident. But the search for agreement on the meaning of words is still important--the theory of special relativity, for example, grew from a sophisticated examination of the word simultaneous. Still, it is disheartening for the layman to watch sociologists chasing each other, like so many out Little Black Sambo's tree, pur-definition of social character...
...violently. The pictures and stories of Negroes at lunch counters and on picket lines, being spat upon, cursed, struck, beaten, dragged away and yet never speaking back, never lifting a limb in self-defense--this "new Negro" broke the image of slovenly, slap-happy, sex-and violence- ridden Sambo, and dramatically demonstrated his commitment to middle class ethics...