Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much easier for a Black to grow up playing basketball or football. He is encouraged, as a matter of fact, because the only Blacks he sees on TV are slam-dunking or running for touchdowns. To play football, all that is needed is a field (any street will due) and a football. To play basketball, only a ball and a hoop are needed...
Unfortunately, we can no longer afford to waste our strength in vain attempts to shore up the myths of the past--whether it be assuming superiority to Japan or acting as if our economy could grow indefinitely. We know the facts, but we haven't really faced up to them...
...same time we terrify ourselves by classifying these disasters as increasingly horrific, we are becoming ever more expert at striking back at them. Yes, many acres of beautiful park land have been destroyed by the fires in Yellowstone, but they can grow back and very few people were physically hurt by them. There was enough warning from the rest of us to save people's lives, if not their property. The same is true in Bangladesh, where resuce teams from around the world will help to control the spread of disease. Gilbert has caused horrible property damage, but no lives...
...disaster, and there was no question that a likely gold medalist had been lost to the team. Still, at Seoul, the U.S. would have the smallest world beater in Evans; one of the largest and most awesome in Biondi; and, unless one of the East Germans has managed to grow gills, by far the spookiest in Berkoff, the vanishing backstroker. Bring on that Korean water...
...mingle with the crowds on the field. You feel the blood coming back into your feet. Your feet feel like dancing. Penguins would grow stiff in this cold. But you are as warm as Florida beach. This is the way it should...