Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of social ideals, the country may be reaching its natural limits as well. Incidents such as the Howard Beach killing in New York City serve to remind us that race hatred is ready to bubble up anywhere, but the fact that the nation almost universally responded to Howard Beach as a disgrace and an outrage suggests how much progress, not how little, the ideal of equality has made. Thanks to the ardor of three administrations, the necessary civil rights laws are in place and enforceable, and the nonlegalistic thinking about social justice has advanced immeasurably. Any Jew, Hispanic...
...clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There...
...have a baby until I was 15. That's a long time. From eleven to 15 waitin' to have a baby." A slumlord: "The original reason I went to Dobermans was that I fell in love with their teeth. I thought they had more teeth than other dogs. They remind me of sharks. Teeth growing all the way down the throat...
...address the need for cuts in the Soviets' arsenal of ICBMs. In 1981 Haig argued for a deal that would leave each side with a reduced number of missiles. When he lost that argument, he dutifully supported the President's zero-option proposal, as George Bush likes to remind...
...response, Williams sent a memorandum to all freshman and to junior advisors, asking them to "remind their prospective of the College's drinking policy and not to encourage them to drink," according to The Record...