Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember the thought that began to run through my mind when as I wrestled with the impulse to physically hurt her: it was the shock that all the people who were crowded into that city pool heard this young, white girl call me a nigger. It was a feeling I can only liken to shame. In as much as I can't control the legacy of the white supremacy that girl's skin color allowed her to claim, I couldn't control my initial reaction to her slur. As Toni Morrison writes in Beloved, "The definitions belong to the definers...
Everyone around me seems to be working especially hard, reflecting on the past "week of hell" and preparing their rattled psyches for the one coming. I wonder if these people who call their lives here hell are really enjoying themselves, really appreciating their educations, really gleaning all they can from Harvard...
...this time Giuliani fought back the fire, took his bows and emerged from the church to hear a man call from the front of Joe's Pizza, "Rudy, you're the best!" Informed of the presidential poll before his speech, Giuliani replied, "I'm flattered," but insisted he wasn't thinking Commander in Chief. So why is he planning to raise several million dollars this year, in accounts that can be used for state or national office? "Just in case," Giuliani said...
...collision. On the other was the description of crew members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they had never heard of anyone flying too low, too fast or doing improper stunts -- what Marine pilots call "flat hatting." It did strike some Pentagon officials as peculiar that there is a nickname for something the pilots say they never do and never heard of others doing...
WASHINGTON: Call it a delicate spin cycle. Never before has the Clinton administration had to respond to sexual harassment allegations from a woman like Kathleen Willey: a Democrat; a former supporter; a woman with nothing to gain financially. This is a different kind of accuser, and the White House offered a different kind of rebuttal. Without comment, Clinton attorneys released a series of 15 Willey letters that said it all: "Take heart in knowing that your No. 1 fan thinks of you every day," she wrote to the President -- a whole year after the alleged incident took place...