Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lighter and brighter than Pewter Pot's. The menu is also twice as extensive. A silver-haired, grandmotherly woman will smile and bring you coffee while your waitress waddles over in her Elizabethan pantaloons. A glance down the menu reveals nothing exotic-just square Middle American fare. The only ethnic flavor maybe is a pale, faint hint of Pennsylvania Dutch that is suggested by the filling hot sandwiches and gravybread. The hot roast beef sandwich comes with a good bowl of French onion soup, the sopped bread floating on the top. Even if it does not quite match the Maitre...
...Republican pros are now planning as if it were already 1972, even to the point of discussing how to penetrate such important voting blocs as blacks and ethnic groups. All tacitly accept the premise that unless Viet Nam and the economy dissolve into nonissues, any other political planning is largely pointless...
...ghetto of South Brooklyn, and they call themselves the "Black and Puerto Rican Stoners" to indicate that they are as hard and as solid as stone. Their uniforms are Army-type fatigues, combat boots and green berets. In addition to being "trustworthy" and "loyal," the Stoners promise to "have ethnic pride," and they pledge allegiance to the flag with clenched fists over their hearts. Their oath: "On my honor I will do my best to help my brother and sister at all times, and to help build up my community and my nation...
...former German territory east of the Oder and Neisse rivers that was ceded to Poland after World War II as compensation for 71,000 sq. mi. of Polish territory that had been annexed by Russia. In turn, the Poles have agreed to allow the 100,000 or so ethnic Germans remaining in Poland to resettle in West Germany...
...Wyke is very pukka. Tindle is half Italian with a half-Jewish father. Wyke can be loftily amusing about this ("Some of my best friends are half-Jews"), but he can also spit with rage ("a wop, a yid, a not-one-of-me face"). This is a seething ethnic confrontation and it gives Sleuth a core of passion that most mysteries, and all too many plays, lack...