Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand and a view of the grassy corral out the window, I remembered to look in the hallway. Sure enough the Mexican cleaning woman was lurking in the shadows, perched on a set of drawers and gobbling down her bag lunch. She would never accept my invitation to join me at the table, she only smiled...
Almost two and a half decades ago, in the sweltering afternoon heat of our nation's capital, Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of the day when "little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." If we hope to fulfill his dream, if we want to counteract the conservative backlash that threatens our nation today, we must remember what King has taught us and follow his lead. Failure to recall his struggles and his vision will cause us to plummet inexorably to the base...
...especially misses his older brother Antoine, who likes explaining things as much as Cat likes asking questions. When Antoine shoots three German officers and runs away to join the maquis, the Gestapo questions and deports his parents. Cat reels with uncomprehending shock. He runs away from the smug, bourgeois household of his aunt and uncle and embarks on a series of adventures in hope of finding his brother...
...Harvard football stadium, dedicated to the memory of legendary coach Percy Haughton, will join a bevy of Harvard buildings thus "beatified" according to the Boston Landmark Commission. The Stadium was the first football stadium built in the country...
...indeed, the Aquino marriage seemed to play out in miniature the central dialectic of Cory's life between politics and faith. As a traditional Filipino flesh presser, Ninoy regarded all politics as dirty politics and was content to join the rough-and-tumble system in order to beat it. Cory, however, disapproved of such chicanery, and in deference to her, Ninoy and his friends never discussed skulduggery when she was present. "The minute she entered the room," says one close family friend, "people put on their best behavior. Even Ninoy behaved when Cory was around. I was nervous when Cory...