Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honky Sellout. At least as much as Spiro Agnew-but with better reason-many black citizens are suspicious of the news media. Clearly, white Americans have not been adequately informed about black Americans. There has been a tendency to concentrate on action stories, such as riots and demonstrations, and not enough effort to explain the causes of dissatisfaction. As a result, when a black reporter for a white-controlled news organization goes into a black community, hostility toward his employer sometimes rubs off on him. He may be regarded, in the phrase of some black newsmen, as a "Ghetto Sniffer...
...confidence proved unjustified. Local officers, gathered in the green-and-gold ballroom of Washington's Continental Hotel, were determined to remain out until their demands were granted. Branding the agreement a "sellout," they finally accepted it only after adding a condition of their own. If no agreement is reached on the salary question by the end of this week, Rademacher would have to call a national work stoppage...
...Niagara University took to the court for a game against the University of Pennsylvania in the first round of the post-season N.C.A.A. tournament, all eyes were on Niagara's Calvin Murphy. While the sellout crowd in the Princeton gym roared its approval, Murphy moved into the keyhole and fed passes to teammates moving around him in a fast, figure-eight weave. Looking one way and passing another, he fired the ball behind his back, around his neck and through his legs. At one point, he fell down but somehow kept dribbling the ball while rolling on the floor...
...pleaded the sellout crowd in the Louisiana State University Coliseum. L.S.U. Guard Pete Maravich (TIME, Jan. 19, 1968) tried, but all he could manage was 0,0,0,0,0 -five missed jump shots in a row. Finally, with 4 min. 41 sec. remaining in the game against the University of Mississippi, Pistol Pete popped a 23-ft. jumper from the right side. The shot boosted Maravich's collegiate scoring total to 2,975 points, eclipsing the record set by Oscar Robertson at the University of Cincinnati a decade...
...Meehan Rink, where Harvard had to rally several times last year before winning in overtime, and where it lost horribly, 9-1, two years before, it will play before a screaming, sellout crowd that hates the Crimson passionately...