Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation apathy, I cannot support their violation of the rights of innocent people in the name of the greater good. But I cannot go as far as Mr Graham in categorically condemning any actions of civil disobedience. In this specific instance the protesters were wrong, but that does not mean that all acts of civil disobedience are unjustifiable. If the goal is for the University to divest completely, then activists should choose forms of protest both more expedient and more justifiable than trespass or illegal restraint to accomplish...
...locals who make them: "In Greensboro they were talking rice and gravy but I didn't know it because in the Carolinas nobody calls rice 'rice.' Down in Charleston they call it 'perlew' and up in Greensboro they call it 'pie-low' and cook books spell it 'pilau,' to mean 'rice pilaf.' " In Wisconsin, she finds that orange whitefish roe is dyed black and processed into caviar primarily for the Japanese market. She gives us a glimpse of Indian salmon ceremonies in the Northwest that include a song beginning "Thank you Swimmer, you Supernatural One, that you have come...
...risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter how dispiriting. And when the unionists cry out for protection from foreign trade to save their jobs, they run smack into the ire of those very same farmers, who know that tariffs on shoes or steel may mean further market losses for soybeans and wheat...
...call it pride, you can call it anything you want," Harvard fullback Brian O'Neil says. "The Yale game is always something big. This year it will mean a little bit more." Yale he says, "is the one team we haven't beaten since I've been here...
Person Two: "Yea, I know what you mean. I have work too. See, I was caught in a meat cleaver this weekend and my body was ravaged beyond human recognition, leaving me limbless and very sad. The department has decided not to give me any extensions so I have to write my thesis, which is due in 10 minutes and I haven't started, in blood...