Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, I could have told him about the mysteries of science and the magical stories of history, and I could have explained to him that in order to get a job in town and escape the third-world living conditions of the community he would need to know how to read and do basic math. But the truth was John didn't want to work in town. He never wanted to leave the community of Atitjere, and he was happy enough with the legends that his grandmother told him and the wondrous science of his cousin, the witchdoctor...
...been surprised by the reader's budget-busting cost, $226.46, especially since she had specifically taken off the syllabus pricey articles from the previous year's reader in order to reduce costs...
...August 1976. The Reagan people in the balcony would not shut up. Roberts' Rules of Order could go to hell. The Californians on one side of the hall screamed, "!Viva!" and those on the other side howled back, "!Ole!" The convention nominated Gerald Ford anyway. Reagan would have to wait four years. I smoked three or four packs that day and, in the bluish cigarette haze of a room in the Muehlbach, wrote TIME's cover story: dreary convention, dismal story; hot, clear Kansas City summer outside. At least that's what I remember...
...kind of passing that Eston (and two unaccounted-for Hemings children, Beverly and Harriet) did is well known among blacks, most of whom have stories of light-skinned relatives who pretended to be white in order to fare better in society. "It's a way of getting away from the stigma and the suffering," explains New York University African studies professor Tricia Rose. Some urban blacks were able to straddle the fence, black at home and white at work. "You would have neighbors," says Golden. "But when you saw them downtown at the job, you knew not to speak...
...Number of calls FAO Schwarz mail order has received a day inquiring about the Furby, this year's most popular...