Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season is so long," cheerleader Co-Captain Kim Rosha said. "We have two games a week. I don't know if any of the basketball cheerleaders can skate. A lot of our girls have taken figure skating...
...relatives of the Flight 103 victims know only too well, even those warnings were not the first. In October, West German police arrested a member of a Syrian-backed guerrilla group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and discovered a Toshiba Boombeat Model 453 radio- cassette player fitted with explosives and a barometric device designed to explode at high altitudes. In the first week of November, the West Germans held a conference in Wiesbaden to distribute information about the construction of the bomb. Security specialists from Britain and the rest of Europe attended...
Growing up ethnic is surely the liveliest theme to appear in the American novel since the closing of the frontier (growing up alienated and getting a divorce are the dreariest). One cheerful result is that Wasps, to the disgust of Nathan Zuckerman's relatives, now know about Jewish families, shnorrers, yentas and all, and that Catholics are knowledgeable about those little ethnicities that Presbyterians possess but do not like to admit to. Northerners understand Southerners, at least on paper, and whites even know something of how life ferments, black among black...
...mothers thinks, "When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes." If she had inside knowing, "she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear." One of the daughters, carefully fearful, remarks to a friend, "I don't know if it's explicitly stated in the law, but you can't ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder...
...that their aircraft could not have been involved. Zanone's cautious denial, coupled with the fact that key evidence has already been destroyed, prompted press speculation that a government cover-up may have taken place. Commented the Rome daily Il Messaggero: "It's no certainty that we will ever know who did it, but it is certain that there was an air chase." Someone, the newspaper added, has concealed the truth...