Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly after joining this church, I went away to summer camp. We all said grace together in the dining hall, but I decided that I didn't want to say grace. When this was brought up with the camp administrators, they asked me to bow my head and observe a "moment of silence" while everyone else prayed. Even at the age of 11, 1 understood that this was wrong. While I didn't know the term "hypocrisy," I still refused to look like I was praying, simply for appearance's sake...
...camp administrators didn't like me much, and as the adults frowned on my determination to keep my eyes open and my head up during grace, the other children realized that I was doing something "wrong." The ridicule and teasing I took for the rest of the week only helped me to reinforce my own agnosticism, but it made my camp experience an incredibly miserable...
According to Nixon, reports indicate that the Senate may also try to eliminate the six-month grace period...
...perkiness and primping, the look is small-town, polyester. This is Sears, not Saks. The women would be prettier with smarter clothes and hipper hairdos. A few display true glamour and grace, but in general this is a triumph of starch over sizzle. The earnestness with which the women sell themselves would make them comfy at a Mary Kay Cosmetics convention. They radiate not fantastic beauty but fanatical effort. For some, striving to be universally liked can trigger the scent of desperation. Horn says, "They are interviewing for a job--the job of Miss America," and the pressure shows...
...storeroom in Atlantic Records' New York City office. Fortunately, the tapes were in near perfect condition. "We just blew the dust off," says Dorn. "We didn't play with the sound by boosting the bottom or putting sparkle on top." No tricks were needed; Coltrane's energy and grace come through without added studio polish...