Word: grahame
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...introductions on the stump, South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who is one of McCain's closest friends, calls the Republican nominee "John The Fighting McCain." This fighting motif, which McCain debuted at the end of his convention speech in Minneapolis, now occupies the thematic center of McCain's message. "Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. We never give up. We never quit," he calls out at the end of each rally, raising his voice and building the excitement of the crowds...
...CityStep was the product of fortuity. In her undergraduate years, Peck and her peers performed excerpts of an original dance theater production for an assembly of students at the Graham and Parks Elementary School. Following the performance, Peck spontaneously asked for eager volunteers to participate in dance exercises onstage, and the positive response from both students and teachers catalyzed the program’s conception...
...CityStep over the years, there have been grumblings about the allocation of the program’s resources. Only 100 of roughly 1,500 students from grades five to eight benefit from CityStep, and in the past few years, the schools with which the organization has collaborated include Graham and Parks and Cambridgeport—two of the district’s financially well-off schools with high performance ratings on the MCAS...
...first day of classes this year, returning sixth and seventh graders from Tobin and Graham and Parks file into the dance studio in Currier House to review the dance vocabulary of last year’s curriculum...
...first vegetarian society was formed in 1847 in England. Three years later, Rev. Sylvester Graham, the inventor of Graham crackers, co-founded the American Vegetarian Society. Graham was a Presbyterian minister and his followers, called Grahamites, obeyed his instructions for a virtuous life: vegetarianism, temperance, abstinence, and frequent bathing. In November 1944, a British woodworker named Donald Watson announced that because vegetarians ate dairy and eggs, he was going to create a new term called "vegan," to describe people who did not. Tuberculosis had been found in 40% of Britain's dairy cows the year before, and Watson used this...