Word: formality
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...this unsettled, formative phase, the Africans worked side by side with white indentured servants whose physical hardships and treatment were largely similar to their own. Too much has been made of the fact that manumission, the formal emancipation from slavery, was open to the most resourceful of them, that a few of the manumitted prospered and that blacks and laboring whites interacted on intimate terms. This was typical of nearly all new multiethnic settlements in the Americas. The colony's élite remained committed to indentured white servitude as the backbone of the labor force until at least the middle...
...ecstatic that the CEB finally embraced Yardfest’s permanent junior high theme. For once, I don’t want something else. —Kimberly E. Gittleson HATE YOU, THIRD EYE BLIND! I haven’t thought about Third Eye Blind since my eighth-grade formal, when I prayed as I looked down at the top of my date’s head that our slow-dance to “Deep Inside of You” might never end. But, really, even then I knew those halcyon days of ill-fitting retainers and skipping lunch...
...difference between John McCain's formal announcement in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, today of his candidacy for President and the myriad speeches, fund-raisers and unofficial announcements he's done over the past few months, say advisers, is now he's telling us why he wants to run. Advisers have admitted they're hoping to create another difference as well: They'd like the campaign to go better...
...unmistakable red-and-black plaid hoodie.The UC vice president has been awake since 6:00 a.m. already, trying to polish off a bit of reading for one of the three philosophy classes that round out his course load this semester. But despite having attended a Delta Gamma sorority formal in Boston the previous night, he doesn’t appear to be affected by a lack of sleep. The thrust of this morning’s breakfast meeting is the issue of how to ensure voter turnout for the upcoming referendum. With Petersen planning to use the results...
...himself or others. (A magistrate did initially judge Cho to be mentally ill, and also either a threat to himself or others or unable to care for himself. But it was only as part of a probable cause determination to hold him briefly at a psychiatric facility until his formal hearing - where he agreed to the voluntary treatment - rather than a binding legal ruling...