Word: braids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...player, and between trips to the bulging buffet table, two black girls teach the others how to get down to the music. Junior Sarah Budzinski gets a plate of cake smashed in her face in early celebration of her 17th birthday tomorrow. After dinner, Natalie's mom braids their hair, brown and blond alike, into cornrows. "Whenever my mom used to braid my hair," says senior Ann Barnes, "she'd say the more it hurts, the prettier it is." A minute later, her light, silky hair in Ms. Rodriguez's firm hands, Ann turns beet red, clenches her teeth...
...father'sencounters with air conditioning, television, popart or Mother's Day and Father's Day." Her fatherwas not against all fun--Lindbergh jubilantlytells of her father giving her a piggy-back rideto the rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and of lettingher "on very brief and special occasions" braid "askinny gray pigtail that hung lopsidedly over hisear." Nonetheless it was Anne Morrow Lindbergh whoserved as the emotional mainstay for her children...
...there is no shortage of gold braid: each Army division currently has 30 generals--up from 14 in World War II. The Air Force boasts a general for every 23 airplanes (down from 244 planes), and the Navy has an admiral for every 1.6 ships (down from 130 ships...
Getting ready to go back into the cold, Payanzo has trouble fitting Dylan's mop of unruly black hair into his blue knit hat. She and Dylan's father, Conrad T. Yazzie, frequently fight over whether his hair should be cut. Yazzie wants to braid it when it gets longer...
...young, and I find it my duty either to continue to tell people about them or to honor them in my work. People who do good work have a certain glow; for instance, someone like Audrey Hepburn got more and more beautiful, right to her death. I just braid my hair. I haven't done anything about the gray...