Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some cases, the Masters interview students and take letters of recommendation. Others just wait until they hear whether they've made...
shell. Take away the crowds from these Olympics, and there would be very little to hear but your own heart racing. Until the closing ceremonies, when the nations who first entered the stadium as if parading before the galaxy, block by formal block, break ranks, and the competitors, chanting raucously off-key, embrace one another in the most disorderly conduct. Pure mush, of course. Cliches down the line. So why are you smiling...
...same sealskin furs and resemble happy brown bears again. Olympic Games open and close with parades. The first is always glorious, and the last is usually a little sad. At U.S. sports events, the national anthem is commonly played and generally ignored. But every four years people strain to hear it, and not only does the melody seem improved, but the meaning is clearer in the Alpine air. It is fun to sing to the mountaintops. ?By Tom Callahan. Reported by Jamie Murphy/New York and B.J. Phillips with the U.S. figure-skating team, with other bureaus
...those people in the world who object to against him and one cannon wholly blame them Agitation after all is unpleasant. It means that while you are going on peaceably and joyfully on your way some half-mud person insists upon saying things that you do not like to hear. They may be over but you do not like to hear them...it is not always pleasant to nice ears to hear a man ever coming with his dark facts and unpleasant conditions. Nevertheless it is the highest optimism to bring forward the dark side of any human picture. When...
That's some of the bad news. Many people who hear it will still just mentally say "Oh well, the Blacks are still catching hell" and go have a nice day. They are not the people who should be appealed to in the first place, but part of the problem that must be dealt with. Unfortunately, the ones I should be addressing, the Black Americans themselves, are a little harder to reach. An estimated 44 percent of us are functionally illiterate...