Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not pass during which I do not hear the argument over boxers and briefs. Strangers curse at each other. Commercials blare out conflicting messages. Roommates quarrel while doing laundry, each vying for moral supremacy. There is never a middle ground; each camp swears it will never compromise. Party identification is often part of introductions as a litmus test for personality. The question is foremost in the psyche of American pop culture: boxers or briefs...
...this contention rests on very shaky ground. The NAACP fails to point out that 48 percent of the Texan prison population is black. In general, in certain parts of the United States, some groups sadly constitute a much higher proportion of the criminal population than of the general one. If we assert the inherent racism of capital punishment, we have to declare incarceration to be racist; indeed, we must indict our justice system as a whole...
...police by short-haired haters that left two people dead, one paralyzed and parts of the city looking like siege zones, Mayor Wellington Webb felt the need to pledge that "we are not going to give up the streets of Denver." Residents wondered whether their city had become ground zero for a new Aryan offensive...
...record ground-rule for Kissinger's remarks: he had told us last spring that he simply could not take on a full-text public speech commitment in October, requiring extensive preparation, but would at least agree to meet informally in an off-the-record question-and-answer setting with the Nieman alumni. Since most Nieman seminars, lunches, and dinners have been off-the-record for nearly 40 years now, I found the request entirely reasonable. Furthermore, I had no doubt that he would encounter--as he did--articulate adversaries, even angry ones, among his questioners...
Menick not only has filled Hu's shoes, but the sophomore standout has fashioned a pair of his own. He has burst onto the scene to become a driving force in the Crimson offense, racking up a total of 1,100 yards on the ground, just two shy of eclipsing Hu's record...