Word: potted
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...miracle of sheer energy and wealth and life: an incandescence, a genetic wonderworks that the Old World stared at in astonishment. The spectacle of such opportunity got the immigrant adrenaline going. New Americans rose to the occasion more often than revisionist history is inclined to admit. The melting pot functioned better than the current assumption of ethnic conflict supposes. Whatever the economic trammels, the U.S. progressively developed a social mobility, a standard of living and individual freedom that no other society had ever offered...
Cubans in the Melting Pot...
...melting pot runneth over...
...were graduating from high school, and by the mid-1960s, graduates totaled 70%. The American public school was hailed for teaching citizenship and common sense to rich and poor, immigrant and native-born children, and for giving them a common democratic experience. "The public school was the true melting pot," William O. Douglas once wrote, "and the public school teacher was the leading architect of the new America that was being fashioned...
...certainly stirred the pot a great deal," Heskett says. "Of course, some of that sort of energy is to be expected from any new dean. But his interest is personal and informal. His only problem is that sometimes he gets so interested in what people are doing that he runs behind schedule. But it's for a good cause...