Word: dreadfulness
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...also speak English without an accent. Instead of an unruly Afro or dread locks, I wear my hair in a lowcropped fade. And I prefer chocolate and milk to gin and juice. Like DiMaggio for Italians, I am one of the "good blacks...
...pasteurized crap. Simple as that. You get five numbskulls with seven-string guitars and fake dread-locks, and you know what, you've got a band? You put some goofy white boy in big baggy pants and take him out to the tattoo shop, you've got another band. You take two lazy fat-ass pieces of white trash from [lousy] Detroit and put clown makeup on them and you've got another band. It's not [really] music. I'm sorry, but you know what--I can get a seven string guitar, I can tune it down two steps...
Pain is a constant--sharper on some days than others. "Some things I dread," he says," like coming down the runway for the first pole vault. I say, oh, God, I hate to do this. Once you begin to loosen...
They are painful rites of passage for American children, from infancy through elementary school. Kids dread them, their parents reluctantly accept them, and the government mandates them. And, until recently, few really questioned the need for--or the safety of--vaccinations...
...take the form of stage fright. "Adolescents have a sense that they're onstage and everyone's looking at them," says Harriet Lenk, professor of child development at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education. Feeling conspicuous whenever he leaves the home portal can fill a youngster with dread. How can parents help? "Listen to the concerns, talk about what they themselves do when they feel anxious and discuss the child's options," advises Lenk...