Word: whitely
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...imported from Las Vegas and an insistence on bourgeois comfort. Parading past the statue of Caesar Augustus (finger aloft, as if hailing a cab), the Boardwalk crowd offers an unself-conscious mixture: round middles barely disguised by oversize T shirts or bulging above cinched-in belts; conical straw hats; white socks in white sandals; baseball caps on balding heads; male decolletage; painted eyebrows; sequins in the daytime; polyester stretch pants; factory-knit acrylic cardigans; lots of polka dots; colors usually found only at the extremities of a kid's Crayola...
This is the Social Security crowd, whose imperturbable coin stuffing accounted in large part for 55% of Atlantic City's gaming win last year. From the street corners of New York City to the hamlets of Pennsylvania, these gamblers in thick-soled white sneakers begin their pilgrimages at dawn, first making their way to deserted parking lots or pick-up points, then wobbling up the bus steps, down the aisle and into a seat. For Josephine Baumann, 71, a retired cook with the face of Edith Bunker, the trip to Bally's Park Place on a recent Wednesday...
...WHITE SEASON. A white liberal turns radical after confronting the brutality of South African racism. Hard-edged drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with the jolt of moral outrage...
Dinkins' chances for a November victory were bolstered by the fact that he won almost a third of his party's white voters, the largest share of white support ever racked up by a nonincumbent black candidate in a mayoral primary in any major city. Dinkins' victory was widely credited to his quiet, conciliatory manner, which many voters hope can heal the racial tensions in a city shaken by several racial incidents, most recently the murder of a black teenager by a gang of Brooklyn whites. "You gave this city something special," Dinkins told his cheering supporters last week...
...drugs and deteriorating schools. Black mayors have had much success in fostering the growth of a black middle class, dispensing thousands of city jobs and using minority set-aside programs to direct a portion of city contracts toward black-owned businesses. Unfortunately, they have fared no better than their white counterparts in solving the intractable problems of the growing black underclass...