Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Housing is important because hotels send out the wrong message," Baden says, refering to past years when some students were housed in hotel rooms. "I much prefer dorms, where rooms are uninviting and people don't want to spend a lot of time in them and are forced into common spaces. That's where the learning happens...
...surveys also show that whites are much more likely to support integration in theory than specific governmental steps to achieve it. A Common Destiny views discrepancies like these as "important signs of continuing resistance to full equality of black Americans: principles of equality are endorsed less when social contact is close, of long duration, or frequent." Put colloquially, the prevalent white attitude is "Yeah, I'm for integration, but not in my neighborhood...
...past decades, the only workable answer remains renewed governmental pressure on behalf of a desegregated America, as politically unpopular as it may be. The implicit message of A Common Destiny is that white America, left to its own devices, will never complete the unfinished task of creating racial equality. That will take leadership, and a dose of compulsion, from...
...sure I've said my share of words that perhaps I shouldn't have said, you know, in common, everyday language. But as far as being able to say I can't work an area because this person's a certain color or that person's a certain color, I have not been that way. There's hostility sometimes, say, when you're making an arrest, one of the friends will say, 'Get your cracker ass outta here!' And I might respond with a four-letter word to them on the side. No 'Nigger, this' stuff or nothin' like that...
...close to your leg, remove the hook and hold the trout for a moment, gauging its length before giving it back to the stream. That too is part of the sport. When waters were cleaner and trout spawned nearly everywhere, killing and eating the fish were a more common reward for the catch. But a generation raised on conservation ethics is releasing fish to reproduce and perhaps be caught again. Our atavistic selves relish the hunt, but our better natures understand the need to protect what we cherish. Fly-fishing lets us do both...