Word: boute
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culturally 'lightened too. We be tukin' hard courses in many subjects, like Afro-Am Studies, Women's Studies, and Policy Studies. And who be mouthin' 'bout us not bein' good read? I be practicly knowin' Roots cova to cova...
...adversaries in each bout grape a single three-foot wooden budget, and the object is to wrestle the cane free from both hands of the opponent...
...resulting network of specialists has not eradicated freshman unhappiness, and every year sees a sizable group of first-year students in every stage of human misery, from a bout of depression to a roommate crisis to a suicide attempt. But the professional and volunteer counselors who deal with the College's undergraduates have an illuminating perspective on the special strains Harvard can put on freshmen--and they offer some reassuring thoughts on possible antidotes...
...After a bout with measles, three-year-old Karyl Ann Mirmelstein of Newport News, Va., seemed strangely unresponsive. Her mother consulted a number of doctors, who variously attributed the child's behavior to sibling rivalry with her baby sister, a learning disability, and even mental retardation. "I knew this couldn't be true," says Rona Mirmelstein. "I could see that Kam was very bright, perhaps more so than most children." Yet it was not until Kam was six that doctors acknowledged that her problem was her hearing. The results of an elaborate series of auditory tests were perplexing...
...behind the bland expressions of good will, there is a determination not to let the Palestinians ever plunge Jordan into either another civil war or another bout of border fighting with Israel. "The P.L.O. would be welcome [as a fighting force] if there were an Arab strategic fighting plan to face Israel militarily," the same Jordanian official says. "As long as such a strategy does not exist, we will not allow the rise of an armed movement within Jordan. You want to fight Israel? That means men, arms. Set up a strategy, then we are interested. Otherwise...