Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black man in a blue windbreaker and a gray porkpie hat was sitting in no man's land, and my stomach tightened. I had never been on a bus on which a black person was asked to give a seat to a white person when there was no other seat empty. Usually, the black person automatically got up and moved to an empty seat farther back. But this morning the only empty seat was beside a black person sitting in no man's land...
...Even now, though, when I have occasion to engage in any transaction with a college-educated black man, I gauge his age. If I guess he was born after 1945, 1 feel confident that the transaction will turn out all right. If he probably was born before 1945, my stomach tightens, I find myself taking shallow breaths, and I try to state my business and escape as soon as possible...
...racism is not behind these ivied walls; instead, it's on the streets of Roxbury and Cambridge and in other Black communities. It manifests itself through the serious economic deprivation and oppression inflicted on ghetto residents. If there is one Black child who goes to sleep with an empty stomach or one Black youth without access to a meaningful education, then it is the primary obligation of all Blacks to do what they can to help change the situation...
...better than a second period bank job he pulled on Steiner. With 7:26 remaining in the stanza and Yale on a power play, Steiner flipped the puck toward an apparently open net, as Lau was on his back in the crease. Somehow Lau turned over on his stomach, stuck his glove out toward the net, and Uri Geller-ed the puck into his glove. Incredible...
...Crimson racquetmen, is ranked thirteenth...Most of the members of the men's squash team received a special kind of inspiration prior to leaving for the match against Princeton last week. Compliments of number seven Chris Gabriell, a belly dancer--with the words "Beat Princeton" stenciled on her stomach--visited the squad. Only coach Dave Fish missed the estravaganza. He was being a good dad, and had stayed home for his son's fifth birthday party. Says Gabrieli about the visitor: "She looked midly middle eastern, but her strong Boston accent gave her away." ...Squash players JOHN DINEEN and GEORDIE...