Word: scareder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Norman Lear TV sitcoms have made metropolitan racial melanges like this into laugh material for a more sophisticated and cynical generation. But growing up in the real situation, in a New York neighborhood where racial barriers were as inflexible as foreign borders, the laughs did not come easy. "I felt...
The manager complained to the House master, and Hamlin was called into the master's office. "I didn't know what it was all about. I was scared. Then the master said, 'About that cockroach...'" But Hamlin didn't want to squander his upward mobility by making a fuss over...
It was 6:30 p.m. and the stocky man in the light beige suit was talking about the weather. He had tried to take a walk, but the drizzle and the knot of well-wishers outside had scared him back into the hotel. Instead of returning to Chambre 15, the...
"It scared me that I didn't really have a strikeout pitch," said Brown, who fell to his knees and raised his arms after the final out. "But I was throwing real well. This is easily the best game I've ever pitched."
This is not to say that the Soviets have announced the curtailment of their troop maneuvers simply because the Poles are showing signs of becoming their own oppressors. To the contrary; many Poles seem to grow more obstreperous by the day, to the point that Lech Walesa, whose eyes gleamed...