Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only is she a Big Sister in Phillips Brooks House's Academy Homes program, but she also participates in the Harvard/Radcliffe Foundation for Women's Athletics, excells in academics, and she will begin teaching English classes at night to Cambridge high school students...
...English-speaking TV viewers, the phrase might have meant anything: "Mayieu kuna. Ijooki inamuk sapukin." So when a recent TV commercial for Nike sneakers featured a traditionally dressed Samburu tribesman in Kenya uttering those words in Maa, the local tongue, an English subtitle was thoughtfully provided: "Just do it," which is the slogan from Nike's current campaign...
...savings of $500,000 by discontinuing a program of emergency grants to local schools for students whose primary language is not English...
...novel, in fact, begins with a big bang: the blowing up, by Sikh terrorists, of a jumbo jet, Flight AI-420 from Bombay to London, at 29,002 feet over the English Channel. Two passengers, cartwheeling and conversing, plummet earthward. One is Gibreel Farishta, India's most popular movie star, who is in disguise and fleeing his fame after suffering a life-threatening illness and discovering in the process that there is no God. The other is Saladin Chamcha, a prosperous performer of voice-overs for commercials on British television, returning to his adopted land after a melancholy visit...
Clinton is a former high school English teacher who became involved with comedy after members of a writing class she was taking dared her to take her humorous words to the stage. Since then, she has produced three albums: Making Light (1982), Making Waves (1984), and Kate Clinton Live at the Great American Music Hall...