Word: whiteys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks of making his way through Harlem-talking to businessmen, politicians, police, civil rights leaders and people, as well as witnessing the riots-Reporter Thimmesch felt that no one bothered him very much, except to hurl a few jeers of "whitey" at him. Ironically, it was Washington Correspondent Wallace H. Terry II, come home to Harlem to spend four weeks working on the story, who during one riot was knocked down and out by a brick hurled from a rooftop...
Harlem is the corner of 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, the black Times Square, where orators on soapboxes or folding chairs harangue passersby to "buy black" or "get whitey." In the shadow of the Theresa Hotel, where Fidel Castro plucked his chickens and Cassius Clay celebrated the feathering of his nest, Lewis Michaux composes Black Nationalist doggerel...
Harlem is where Negroes refer to one another as "nigger" and "brother," "spook" and "hardhead," but woe to the white man who uses the same expression. It is where the white man is no longer the "ofay" (pig Latin for foe), but "Mr. Charlie" or "the man," and mostly "whitey," derived from the Black Nationalist talk of "the blue-eyed white devil." It is where a common laborer mutters to himself at a corner bar: "You don't come up to Harlem and whip my head, white man. You can whip me somewhere else. But not here, white...
Next day was even better. Whitey Ford started for New York, and he naturally found it hardest to lose-in eleven decisions, he had made the plunge only once. This time he did the next best thing: he retired after two innings, with the game tied 4-4. That left it up to Relief Pitcher Stan Williams, whose special talent is that he does not know how to field a bunt. In the eighth inning, he picked up a trickier-and threw the ball into left field. Then, he picked up another-and threw it into right field. Final score...
...everyone knew the Bombers had switched to light artillery a few years ago. The pitching and fielding was supposed to make Yogi Berra a first time winner. After a brilliant first week, however, only Whitey Ford has lasted long enough to work up a sweat, and only the Stuartmisled Red Sox have a worse fielding average...