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Robinson was aghast: "Are you looking for a Negro who is afraid to fight back?" [80] [81] Rickey replied that he needed a Negro player "with guts enough not to fight back." [80] [81] After obtaining a commitment from Robinson to "turn the other cheek" to racial antagonism, Rickey agreed to sign him to a contract for $600 a month, equal to ...
Robinson was aghast after questions by Rickey: "Are you looking for a Negro who is afraid to fight back?" [20] [21] Rickey replied that he needed a Negro player "with guts enough not to fight back." [20] [21] Rickey also discussed prospects with Wendell Smith, writer for the black weekly Pittsburgh Courier. [22]
Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have or ever will have. We're not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to rip out their living goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.
It's quite a song title, too. If we take a trip down memory lane and look at Olivia's debut album Sour, the phrase "teenage dream" came up in her music before. In Sour's opening track "Brutal ...
Paul is the favorite, because Tyson is old enough to be an AARP member. ... Tyson said after the fight, “I do not have the guts to be in this sport anymore. ... He came back to fight Roy Jones ...
When your guts just turn to liquid." Sure enough, starting with that day's taping, she disappeared from view. "I was hidden behind cars and boats and refrigerators and stuff like that," she says.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
It is not enough to learn how to ride, you must also learn how to fall; It is on; It is the early bird that gets the worm; It is the empty can that makes the most noise; It is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease; It is what it is; It needs a hundred lies to cover a single lie; It never rains but it pours; It takes a thief to catch a thief