Word: lated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter pored over some problems for two hours. They once scattered 200 pennies on the kitchen table in a vain attempt to get a solution. "The [problems] would be so hard," Christina says, "that I would leave them for my husband to solve when he got home from work late." Those were not happy times. "It made all our time together negative," Christina says. "It was painful...
Everyone knows ELVIS PRESLEY met his future wife Priscilla while stationed in Germany in the late 1950s. News has surfaced that another underage girl captured his attention around that time, only she didn't find out about it until 39 years later. In 1960 Karen Golz, then a 10-year-old German schoolgirl, sent Elvis an effusively admiring letter in which she promised to marry him and informed him of her upcoming birthday. Elvis, touched, penned a return missive: "Dear Karen, may you have a very happy 11th Birthday and a lot of 'Teddy Bears.' Your Friend, Elvis," and gave...
...despair of temporary paralysis paled, however, compared with the anguish Barker felt in late 1997, when all but 20 acres of the farm he had owned for more than 15 years were auctioned off following what he contends was an illegal foreclosure. "It was one of the worst days of my life," says Barker, 50. "It was like losing two or three children all at once...
...many, including Barker, the settlement may be way too little and way too late to reverse the damage done by decades of institutional racism. Black farmers now own less than 1% of the farmland in the U.S.; at the turn of the century that figure was 14%. In 1920 nearly 1 million black farmers tilled American soil; 70 years later, that number had dropped to fewer than...
...BETTER LATE THAN NEVER...