Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whites is a philosophy of self-discipline and self-reliance. During a recent speech, Farrakhan told the story of Deletha Word, a black woman who dented the car of another motorist, also black, on the Belle Isle Bridge over the Detroit River. The driver allegedly beat Word with a tire iron, then watched as she flung herself to her death off the bridge. "She wasn't killed by Mark Fuhrman," orated Farrakhan. "She wasn't killed by the oppressor. She was killed by her so-called Brother because he was mad she had bumped into his shiny...
...action. He lay on his back, gazing up at us with sightless eyes. The man was slightly built, had coarse, nut-brown features and wore the flimsy black short-legged outfit we called pajamas. My gaze fixed on his feet. He was wearing sandals cut from an old tire, a strip of the sidewall serving as the thong. This was our fearsome unseen enemy. I felt nothing, certainly not sympathy. I had seen too much death and suffering on our side to care anything about what happened on theirs. We took the wounded V.C.s prisoner and left...
...year-old mother of one, jumped from a bridge to her death following an angry altercation that occurred when her car hit another vehicle. Early accounts said Martell Welch, the driver of the other car, stripped Word naked on the Douglas MacArthur Bridge, smashed her car window with a tire iron and then forced her to jump while dozens of people stood by cheering. Prosecutors now call these reports exaggerated, saying Word was not stripped or beaten and there were no cheering crowds. Nevertheless, Welch was charged with second-degree murder as city officials scrambled to repair De troit...
Lest local civil-liberties lawyers tire of cruel-and-unusual punishment cases, however, James has also engaged them in the First Amendment arena. He has called for a law permitting school prayer (not a moment of silent prayer, but the vocal kind). Specifically, he embraced the cause of Judge Roy Moore, whom the American Civil Liberties Union has sued for praying over his Etowah County courtroom. James not only raised money for Moore's defense; the Governor is suing the ACLU for suing Moore...
Last weekend, the squad travelled to Rhode Island and raced The Reaper's Revenge--a 20-mile Eduro course event sponsored by the Eastern Fat Tire Association (EFTA). Over 500 racers competed in every division from beginner to professional...