Henry Cole's famous white cup was not the great
white hope; the Renaissance was not simply the start of the modern world but 'a major retrenchment; a cultural and economic movement to stabilise an immensely turbulent and uncontrollable state of affairs caused at least in part by the growth in private ownership of furniture, household goods, jewellery and clothes'.
The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and Design in Britain, 1550-1960
Harris's campaign manager was Jim Hightower, the great
white hope of American populism.
Hero of the 1970s
Now the great
white hope has withdrawn from the contest because of his children.
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Jerry Quarry, a perennial '
white hope' who had the misfortune to compete in an era that included greats Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Ken Norton.
BRAWLERS WHO HAD ONE FIGHT TOO MANY
FRANKEL had been racing's great
white hope before his only Classic appearance at Newmarket in the Spring of last year.
I'LL NEVER FORGET USAIN COLT
LEE'S
WHITE HOPE Britain has plenty of 'white horse' chalk landmarks but racing has only a few horses registered with Weatherbys as white.
LEE'S WHITE HOPE Britain has [...]
In those days, Milburn was a cipher for Tony Blair, his hand-picked great
white hope who might just stop the Brown Bomber.
Traitor to the cause
HUYTON batsmen Dave Conlon and Peter
White hope to amongst the runs again tomorrow when they visit Tranmere Vics in Division One of the Bromborough Paints Merseyside Competition.
Duo out to wield willow again; local cricket
CLEVELAND AND AKRON, OHIO: Posthumous pardons aren't high on most presidential agendas, but two Ohio theatres are hoping that President Barack Obama will take another look at the case of Jack Johnson, the African-American boxing champion convicted in 1913 for dating a white woman, whose story inspired Howard Sackler's Pulitzer-winning 1967 play The Great
White Hope. Cleveland's Karamu House will stage a revival, Feb.
Double-punched
Who was America's 'great
white hope' in the 1908 world heavyweight contest against the black boxer, Jack Johnson ?
QUIZOPEDIA
India and China were recently hailed as the great
white hope for car manufacturers, with fast growing, increasingly wealthy populations seemingly offering a panacea for falling demand in the car-saturated West.
Hopes of East saving West fading; EMERGING MARKETS
Enter protege Tommy 'Machine' Gunn, played by John Wayne's great nephew and real-life great
white hope, Tommy Morrison.
The life and times of film legend Rocky
"This horse could develop into one who could give Mr Nicholls' great
white hope (Kauto Star) a scare up the Cheltenham hill."
Play shows the way for Evan!
Unbeaten Larry Holmes' defence of his title against great
white hope Gerry Cooney was on at 9.35pm.
Back in the Days: Teenage snooker player was destined for the top; 1982
The cause of all these words, all this passion, was not a political crisis or a natural catastrophe--it was a prizefight, the 1910 contest between Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion, and Jim Jeffries, who had been singled out as "the Great
White Hope of the Western World." But this was obviously more, and less, than a prizefight.
Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope