Word: hardening
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Brandon and Nicole Harden drew a poster together at school that captures the rough journey they have taken together this year. On one side is a picture of a skull with knives stabbing through it. "This is bad," they wrote, "so never have a bad holiday or a bad birthday or other bad days." On the flip side is a heart, a promise of better days...
...good hearts have helped give the Harden children a real Christmas this year. But six months ago, when their mother Tamey left them in Poplar Bluff, Mo., to search for work elsewhere, the children wondered if the holidays would ever come again. When they joined her in Charlotte, N.C., Tamey had still not found a home. At first the clan lived in cramped motel rooms, then in a homeless shelter for families. But now Tamey, her boyfriend Bobby Warren and the children, 7 and 10, have an apartment, a tree ringed with presents, and a vision of their lives that...
...revolting picture show? Did he believe that the grisly footage would turn Western public opinion against the war? Deter pilots from their missions? Raise doubts about the fortitude and courage of the allied fighting forces? If so, Saddam had grossly miscalculated once again. The clumsy propaganda seemed only to harden civilian and military resolve that Saddam must be stopped. Western viewers did not need expert commentary to conclude that the statements made by 13 captured pilots -- eight Americans, two Britons, two Italians and one Kuwaiti -- had been brutally coerced, in bald violation of the Geneva Conventions' provisions on the treatment...
...aristocrat who hates to deny crumbs to anyone, vetoed the bill anyway, on the ground that it encouraged racial quotas. But the bill was more than just bad legislation. It was a sign of intellectual bankruptcy in our thinking about race. As race relations worsen, as ethnic divisions harden, as an ex-Nazi pulls nearly as many votes in Louisiana as did the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, the country has run out of ideas...
...even these unpleasantries do not harden Rabbit. "He had a hard time when we were younger giving up his dreams and his freedom but he seems at peace now," his wife reflects. Nelson, however, cannot comprehend his father's simplicity and ability to ignore real life. He tells his mother that he cannot think of life "like a big joke, like Dad does, as if the fucking world is nothing but a love letter from yours truly...