Word: girls
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...name La Nina, Spanish for "the girl," was concocted two years ago to distinguish the "cold event" from El Nino, "the boy" or "Christ child," so named because it usually makes its appearance near Christmastime. Marked by an influx of warm water and winds from the western Pacific, El Nino is known to bring heavy winter rains to Peruvian deserts and warm weather to the U.S. West Coast. The two systems make up the extremes of a giant meteorological system called the Southern Oscillation that links the ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific. Normally the system functions as a giant...
...find a girl with whom he could share his zeal...
Fortunately, the principal was more of a talker than the hall monitor. I not only found out that the school had been around since 1860, but when I expressed my surprise that a Catholic girls' school should be sitting inthe middle of a strip of pubs, the office burst in to laughter, the principal informed me that there were 16 Catholic girls' schools in the area, and one girl said, "Catholic schools are always in the middle of a strip of pubs...
...York State Attorney General Robert Abrams last week brought an end to the case of Tawana Brawley, the 15-year old Black girl who claimed she was kidnapped and raped by six white men in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and the results probably did not surprise anyone. Abrams announced that the grand jury for the case decided that there was not enough evidence to prosecute anyone...
...whom her advisors accused of racism, but the Black community of New York. Because of the negative publicity brought about by the case, Blacks will continue to suffer the effects of a judicial system that never seemed to defend their rights anyway. The confused and frightened 15-year old girl who cried wolf may have set back race relations in the state by several years, but most New Yorkers prefer to place the blame on Sharpton, Maddox and Mason--who knowingly defended the false accusations--rather than on Brawley...