Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven years every other little black boy in the first grade will be named Kunta...
...seventh-grade English teacher. All my students watched Roots. The effect on them was not a step toward interracial unity. They were confused and upset, and reacted by calling one another "Masser" and "Nigger...
...season, there will only be one this year. Farms have suffered more than $3 million in losses, and farmers' incomes have been cut by one-half to two-thirds. The town's businesses, which depend on agriculture, are down 40% in sales. Twenty-seven of 58 grade AAA dairymen have sold out and left the community. If the orchards do not get sufficient water by spring, the remaining trees will die. The whole economy is on the brink of collapse...
...lives of 50,000 American soldiers. A former CIA agent Emerson knew in Vietnam who lives now in New York told her, "It bores me, it's ancient history," adding, as he turned back to watch a T.V. football game, "I don't want to remember." An eighth grade history text has only a few paragraphs on the war. Apparently, it is easier for Americans to forget the country was ever involved in an ugly war than it is to live with the guilt. Angrily, Emerson writes, "It is important to remember, to spell the names correctly, to know...
...when Petro's left skate went in reverse, allowing the little black monster entrance to the Crimson goal, Dartmouth suddenly had a 3-2 triumph, and Harvard faced the possibility of missing the playoffs for the first time in 11 years, or not since you were in the fifth grade and used to threaten the kid across the street with statements like "Give me some of that candy or I'll beat your head in." You just don't mix milk with meat...