Word: fits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been two weeks since my last cigarette. If I ever smoke again, it won't be to kill myself or to deal with a "nic fit." It will be to affirm my right to do so in the face of big brother's criticism. It will be to validate a fraternity in which "bumming" a cigarette is acceptable in a way that no non-smoker could understand. (Have you ever bummed a french fry from a passerby...
...consciousness in the '30s, I thought the world was coming to an end." So they fought; they yelled on street corners, they rallied, they discussed the fate of their turbulent world in which Stalin was the successor of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler was threatening to conquer Europe in a fit of anti-Semitic and racist rage and poverty in America was pervasive...
...requested a change to jennylee@fas, a name which fit nicely into the eight-character limit for accounts on the FAS network's operating systems. My request was denied because my full name is Jennifer and not Jenny. I was told that HASCS changed e-mail accounts only on certain occasions--for example, when the resulting login name was a profane word in another language...
...whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship of Catholic minority overwhelmed by a fanatic Inquisition mood symbolized...
...pitfalls of segregating history to a necessary cost, arguing, as my father would, that Black History Month is something to work with in the meantime, until society is ready to integrate black history and American history. Yet there is something more that we absolutely can't ignore. Trying to fit the black experience into the confines of February has trivialized black history. For too many people, black history has become a few famous faces, some choice quotes, a bit of kente cloth and productions showcasing singing and dancing. I realized this in ninth grade, when I helped organize the Black...