Word: english
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spoke movingly of her struggle to decide how she should act in America. With no guidance and little experience with truly independent choices, she bent to what she felt was expected of her--to live as a memorial to her martyred associates. Now, though, she is studying English and hopes to use what she is learning in the U.S. to strengthen the pro-democracy movement in China. She is beginning to look ahead...
Julia Prewitt Brown, 41, was a member of B.U.'s English Department from 1974 until she was denied tenure in 1981. At one point, university President John Silber termed the department "a damn matriarchy" although only only six out of 20 members of the department at the time were female, according to court testimony...
...Alex English had 20 points and Jerome Lane 16 for Denver, which ended a two-game losing streak but won its eighth game in its last...
McHale started that quarter with two free throws, but two foul shots by English began an 11-0 run that gave the Nuggets a 93-86 lead with 8:05 to play. They took the lead for good, 88-86, on Fat Lever's, basket with 9:02 remaining...
...conversations like these can get frustrating. The pressure caused one distraught young man in my English class to exclaim, "Why do you people insist on talking about housing all of the time? It's only December for God's sake. We can't do anything about it for another couple of months. We can't do anything about it then either. All of you should just calm down and think about something that we can actually have an effect on--like nuclear disarmament or Third World human rights violations. Read a book if you don't like activism. Play Nintendo...