Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most of the things that have surprised me have concerned me personally--having my first year roommates come up to me and ask 'Who are you?' and having 'Your average, typical black person from New Orleans' not be enough, having to explain myself--has been really exhausting...
...explain being a student who is black, Jewish, lesbian, feminist, activist (and not necessarily in that order, or any order) at a college known for making, not breaking, the mold...
...White House has always been staffed by several dozen veterans who, independent of party politics, have long experience with the day-to-day operations of the presidency. The best stay on forever; the worst are moved out. Linda Tripp, apparently, was the latter, which could explain her transfer to the Pentagon in 1994, long before the current controversy...
...novel opens starkly--"They shoot the white girl first"--and then coils back and forth through a century of imagined history to explain who "they" are and why, on a dewy Oklahoma morning in 1976, they felt compelled to storm a decaying mansion and wreak violence on the handful of women living within...
...shoots the puck so well, but it's not just that he shoots hard," Tomassoni tried to explain. "He gets the shot off so quickly and that's what makes him so dangerous...