Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...years ago this year my father, long since departed these earthly environs, took my brother and me to see Cleveland play the 1949 Red Sox. I was seven. From a child's perspective, I recall how unfair I thought it was for the Red Sox to make "that colored boy" chase baseballs all over centerfield...
...family lived in South Carolina, traveled to Boston in the summers, and "colored boy" was a polite way of saying "Negroes" or worse in that era. I had no way of knowing how awesome the hitting power of the Red Sox lineup was in the post World War II years...
That is, of course, until an errant pass of mine ended up on the foot of the other team's star winger. The boy, whose name I cannot bring myself to utter, scored the tying goal seconds later and his team went on to win the championship title in sudden-death overtime...
...indecisive before, the latest court ruling on the fate of Elian Gonzalez may paralyze her altogether. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued an order Wednesday that Elian not be removed from the U.S. pending his Miami relatives' appeal in their bid to seek asylum for the boy. They declined, however, to rule on whether he should be handed over to his father. "The ruling leaves the immediate question of Elian's custody back in the hands of the Justice Department," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Reno is free to send marshals...
...ruling presents a major headache for Reno, who had hoped to fortify her resolve to reunite the boy and his father with a court order. With Juan Miguel Gonzalez having agreed to remain in the U.S. pending the outcome of the appeal, pressure will now mount on Reno to bring that to fruition. But the Miami relatives have insisted that won't happen unless Reno sends federal marshals through the throng around Lazaro's house to collect the boy. Reno has faced mounting criticism inside the Justice Department for the lack of follow-through on her threats to enforce...