Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evolving as it recognizes other accents, other rhythms, other struggles. There was a moment when certain East Coast urban men told us everything about the universe that we could know. Then the trade routes shifted. I think that the great mesa to stand on now is on the Pacific Coast. Not a mountain, but a mesa...
...blacks knew nothing in advance. "I went to school one morning," Mrs. Venable remembers, "and the superintendent told us that Prince Edward County had gone out of the education business. I was shocked. It was like you had been living with vipers all around you and didn't know...
...county's commercial center. The public schools struggled along in a state of mediocrity, trying to repair the damage. Vanessa Venable remembers a 13-year-old girl standing at a blackboard. She was asked to add 34 and 26. She began to weep uncontrollably. She did not even know how to write a number. So she and Mrs. Venable stood at the blackboard for long minutes, crying hopelessly together...
...trying to get the message out that hard times are on the way. Lee Iacocca, who visited Washington last week to lobby Congress for a tougher, more focused U.S. trade and industrial policy toward Japan, said in a recent interview with the trade publication Automotive News, "They don't know there is a war on. They don't have the foggiest idea. Am I saying the worst is yet to come? I don't think we've bottomed out yet. That is what I am saying." No one in Detroit would contest his argument. The outcome is in the hands...
...speak in the Midwest, then to Greece and back in 72 hours, then out again across the country. Her distraught husband watched in alarm. He knew well his wife's deep insecurities. "Kitty can't stand being out of the limelight," he told a close aide. "I don't know what...