Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bought the story. Whites bought the story. Blacks bought the story. The story of a random abduction and murder by an assailant, white or Black, is far more believable than the truth in this case, that a man premeditatedly shot both his seven-month pregnant wife and himself to collect insurance money and open a restaurant. To back up their theory, the authors point out that "white society already perceived the Black male as a murderous, adulterous beast as a result of... historically biased media portrayal." Please. Aside from the KKK, did Maddox and Allen find a single white person...
Holiday even got her nickname, "Lady Day", because of her quest for dignity. Traditionally, female singers in nightclubs would go from table to table and collect tips by pulling up their dresses and grabbing outstretched monetary offerings with their labia. Holiday attempted this ritual a few times but found it too degrading, and thus the other singers sarcastically started calling her "Lady...
...early-morning chill last Thursday, a line swiftly lengthened outside Bloomingdale's department store in New York City. But these were not shoppers eager to get the first crack at a sale in the chic emporium. They were merchandise suppliers clamoring to collect their money from Bloomie's, the centerpiece of Robert Campeau's troubled empire. After the store offices opened at 8 a.m., some 400 red-eyed vendors marched inside to pick up their checks...
...open our eyes and see the mess." Yet he had nothing of the reformer, no impulse toward public life. He rarely granted interviews, resolutely declined to discuss his works, rebuffed would-be biographers by saying his life was "devoid of interest." He even refused to show up to collect his 1969 Nobel Prize in literature -- an award he had lobbied the Swedish Academy not to give him. Characteristically, his death on Dec. 22 was kept secret until after a private funeral four days later...