Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken me a little over two years of Harvard to get to this point. What will two more years do? And what about 25? Will I eventually turn into one of those gray-haired, Harvard-tie-wearing alumni who sit in the front row and munch caviar while cheering on the old alma mater every year...
...keep waiting for culture shock to hit, for me to become totally frustrated with my Chinese or get completely sick of everything--something. But it hasn't happened...
...bicycle is my best friend--I ride it everywhere. I tied a red ribbon to the handlebars so that it wouldn't get lost among the rows and rows of black bikes in the streets every day. Last week we rode into Tiananmen Square. You cannot imagine a space this big, and full of people. It must have been an incredible sight last...
...hard covers. It is difficult to imagine why not. Malamud hit his stride early, writing stories of old men trying to preserve their dignity amid the shambles of harsh circumstances. In The Literary Life of Laban Goldman, an elderly Jew attends night school to improve his English and get away from his nagging wife; he experiences a brief moment of triumph when the Brooklyn Eagle publishes his letter to the editor urging a relaxation of New York State divorce laws. The Grocery Store evokes the atmosphere in which the author, the son of a grocer, grew up in Brooklyn...
Fearing that racism is involved, Sikh leaders point out that turbaned Sikhs served in the British army in two world wars and now work in many Canadian police forces. After seven months' study, the government has still not decided whether the Mounties will get their turbaned...