Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most good students crack their books the minute they get home? Are the Williams-family rules the way to success? Not necessarily. Bismarck Paliz likes to work late at night. "I've had projects due the next day, and I've had to stay up till 5 a.m.," he says. His multimedia work style horrifies his mother: "He has the TV on, the headphones on his ears, and he's doing his homework on the computer," says Wadette Paliz with a shudder. But she doesn't argue with success. Stephen George has also been known to do homework with...
...natural world. Here is a fox: "Half grown/ His small feet black as matchheads." Here is a bush fire that consumed much of her property in Wooroloo: "It began with a small red spot/ That flowered in the floorboards,/ Its anemone danced, and the music/ Was the crack of wood applauding." Such moments suggest that poets can be born as well as made...
...spleef's length without attracting some sort of attention from the locals. It is often hard to distinguish friendliness from salesmanship among Jamaicans, which can be off-putting--nearly every conversation leads to a proposition to buy somethings: hair braids, motor scooters, marijuana, mushroom tea, ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, or crack. But even if it seems like the Jamaican local is aiming to grab that $20 bill pasted on each tourist's forehead, these dealers are nothing to be afraid of. They often provide some colorful moments...
...worry about some kid buying cigarettes and not about a bunch of crack dealers on the street..." he says, a bit bemused...
...into a great city. The grandson of slaves, the son of Texas sharecroppers, he broke through racial barriers because there was simply no surrender in him. He bore the abuse that was the price of his success with a majestic dignity that even his most vicious detractors could never crack. Although he never courted the press, and was often criticized by it for his stoic public demeanor, he was one of the ablest politicians I have ever known. He understood that the test of political genius lies in the hard work of building constituencies and forging them into sustainable electoral...