Word: blonde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straightforward approach. They point out that even black children from affluent homes in integrated neighborhoods need reassurance about racial issues because from their earliest days they sense that their lives are "viewed cheaply by white society." If, for example, a black little girl says she wishes she had straight blond hair, they advise parents to point out "in a relaxed and unemotional manner . . . that she is black and that most black people have nice curly black hair, and that most white people have straight hair, brown, blond, black. At this age what you convey in your voice and manner will...
...hundred out of more than 41,000 pilots in all the services. It is still a dramatic departure in American society and its armed forces. The new era was symbolized at Aspin's Pentagon press conference by Air Force Captain Sharon Preszler, 28, a soft-spoken strawberry blond. "I can be a killer," she said firmly. "I can and will kill in defense of my country...
Schneider, 43, had been reared, like some of the cultists, as a Seventh Day Adventist. Unlike the others, he had been more than a congregant. Since childhood the blond, outgoing Wisconsinite had felt a calling. After earning a degree in religion from the University of Hawaii in 1986, he tried for a while to start his own church. He next applied for a job as minister at the local Adventist church. It was shortly after being turned down that he and his wife Judy met Marc Breault, then a recruiter for the Branch Davidians, an Adventist offshoot. Soon Schneider...
...were seeking a lift to the mall. Layers pile on layers: we watch as Wanda watches herself on Donahue and A Current Affair; the film's producer and writer appear as themselves; and the entire story is framed by a videotaped "interview" with Wanda wearing a new blond hairstyle but the same bone-chilling self- assurance...
...blond offered to let me see her notes, but as she glanced at mine, she said she wasn't sure we were working on the same type of story. Indeed. She has things like "3 sec-violation - Lohaus." I have paranoid ravings and incoherent exclamations...