Word: lye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protagonists she found in black literature to fire her dreams of rising beyond the back-breaking work that seemed the destiny of most of the black people she knew. "I remember Grandma trying to teach me how to wash clothes and lay them across the line with clothespins, making lye soap, killing the hogs, wringing the chickens' necks, and she'd say, 'Watch me, 'cause you're going to have to learn how to do this,'" Winfrey recalls. "And I remember thinking, 'Don't need to watch Grandma, because my life isn't going to be like this.'" Watching Diana...
...discussion afterward is extremely effective. It helps to bounce ideas off actors and other students," said Suzanne C. Lye...
...especially liked the vignette format. It shows that there are many different types of rape," Lye said. "It hits you very quickly that this is a serious subject...
Suzanne C. Lye '98, the event's executive manager, said there are "many weeks of hard work and sleepless nights" to put the show together...
...Lye also said that An Evening With Champions is one of the biggest fund raisers each year for the Jimmy Fund, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year...