Word: tee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson was hardly fazed by the criticism. Continuing to defend the P.L.O. as "a government in exile," he met Jordan in Chicago, and Jordan said afterward that "we agreed to disagree without being disagreeable." Others on Jackson's side were less cordial. The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a onetime aide to Martin Luther King Jr., charged that Jordan had succumbed to "the plantation syndrome." The Rev. William Augustus Jones, president of the Progessive National Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members...
...They are greeted first by a battalion of souvenir hawkers peddling commemorative medals, half a dozen brands of Pope programs, (the best of which has a full page of the holy father kissing the ground in different locales), dumb bumper stickers (I saw the Pope in Mass"), and blasphemous tee-shirts ("Pope Adds Life...
Such volleys were balanced, to some extent, by promises from both sides to work together against racism and injustice. But the sense of outrage came through even more clearly in individual declarations. Defending the new black support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker of Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church said the Palestinians "are the niggers of the Mideast." Nathan Perlmutter, director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, called the black leaders' charges an "amalgam of half-truths, untruths and anti-Semitic nonsense." Howard Squadron, president of the American...
...first thing you'll realize when you arrive at Harvard Yard is that nobody will ask you what college you're going to, and you won't get terribly far dropping the name. Put away your Harvard tee-shirt, because it ain't chic here, it's overkill...
Alexander went off the first tee late in the day paired with Henley and Zito in a threesome in which the birdies came fast and furious. Alexander went out in a two-over 37, sweeping through the first seven holes in even par. A rash of three putts undid him coming in. Alexander, who hits a golf ball prodigious lengths, was out-driving Henley and hitting at least two clubs less than Zito on every hole...