Word: hancocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most dramatic example of the fusion of law, economics and the awakening political power of blacks currently shaping the South can be found in the renaissance of Hancock County. Five years after a voter-registration drive began reclaiming the blacks' franchise, Hancock County's courthouse is run by a predominantly black school board, county commission and judge of the ordinary. But holding political control over a dying, poverty-ridden county is an empty victory, so Hancock's blacks are trying to create a new standard of living to make power worthwhile. In a tiny hamlet called Mayfield...
Playing North as cool, rather xenophobic and wry (as his research suggested), Ustinov showed his contempt for the colonials by referring to a certain "Colonel George Washingham." Asked about another rebel leader, Ustinov could not restrain himself from a coy, anachronistic gag. "John Hancock, sir, there can be no insurance of anything while he is active," he sniffed. At more serious moments, Ustinov dismissed the Boston Massacre as "a minor incident" and, when queried as to "the core of the quarrel between the Americans and your government," replied: "You regard it as a quarrel; I regard it more as slight...
...look down upon Chicago. Long before the late A.J. Liebling permanently dubbed the place "Second City," outsiders laughed at Chicago's pretensions. Not until last year, however, did Chicagoans themselves have the spectacular opportunity to overlook their town that is now offered by the 100-story John Hancock Building. "Big John," as Chicago wits affectionately call the thing, is the world's tallest apartment building: no apartment is less than 45 stories off the ground, and the highest are on the 92nd floor. Tenants often find themselves above cloud level, and they are permanently remote from the city...
...carrier Hancock, which came from its home base in Alameda, Calif. joined the carrier Oriskany in the Tonkin Gulf to launch a strike over a 2000-mile stretch of the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...spokesmen said other supersonic jest from the Hancock equipped with spy gear including highly sophisticated cameras streaked into North Vietnam to photograph supply buildups awaiting shipment southward...