Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact each incident, each encounter, adds another piece to a puzzle that Anna must solve. The villagers begin to mutter when they see the foreign woman so often in the company of Catalina. Anna, who thinks she has retreated to this place because she has loved and lost, must learn from her young friend that true devotion can begin only when loss and sacrifice are taken for granted...
...need to like people, and I do a lot," Williams says of politics. Whether campaigning from door to door or traveling to work by public transportation, "you learn a hell of a lot. There is nothing like it." She adds, "That is what I love about politics and what I most miss by being in these hallowed portals...
Considered in the abstract, at least, the idea of making English the official language of American states seems reasonable enough. As supporters of the referenda often argued, it doesn't seem like a great imposition to ask United States citizens to learn the nation's native language. After all, learning a new language hardly seems too much to ask in exchange for the benefits of living in a free society. And having pockets of foreign-speaking people might have a divisive effect on the unity of the nation, the referenda supporters claimed...
Considered in the abstract, at least, the idea of making English the official language of American states seems reasonable enough. As supporters of the referenda often argued, it doesn't seem like a great imposition to ask United States citizens to learn the nation's native language. After all, learning a new language hardly seems too much to ask in exchange for the benefits of living in a free society. And having pockets of foreign-speaking people might have a divisive effect on the unity of the nation, the referenda supporters claimed...
...Lillie Rayborn, 43, is already damp with sweat, trying to keep up with her rambunctious first-graders at Tunica's Rosa Fort Elementary School. "All right," she says firmly. "Yesterday we learned the letter l. Today we will learn the letter d." She hands out construction paper "bones." If the word on the "bone" begins with d, the child gets to "feed the dog" -- a large construction-paper hound with a hole for a mouth. The kids love...