Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gradual. Everyone has experienced slights, insults or failures at one time or another, and most people find some way to cope. Or, if they don't, a trusted friend or family member may persuade them to forget the past and get on with their lives. But if they cannot shake off the sense of humiliation, they may instead nourish their grudges and start a mental list of all the injustices in their lives. Rather than take a critical look at themselves, they blame their troubles on "the company," for example, or "the government" or "the system...
...mayor of Decatur attends Oakhurst, as do some affluent white gays who have settled in the area. "When you come here, you are going to shake the hand of somebody you don't know and would not normally meet," says Stroupe. "We are proclaiming a different reality." This month, Stroupe is releasing a new book on ethnicity in America titled While We Run This Race: Countering the Power of Racism. But the real lesson of Oakhurst isn't on a page, it's in the spirit of the gospel music swelling out of the church every Sunday...
...spoke with my family," Waldo said. "My mom was at the house about eight miles north of the city, and she said she could feel the house shake. Mydad was in an office building about two blocksaway and he said it felt like an airplane hadcrashed into the building...
...says she also witnessed crude behavior on his part with other female employees. One instance occurred in the early 1980s, when the woman says she saw Bolduc greet a female colleague whom he barely knew by pulling her into an unwilling embrace when she moved to shake his hand. Even more embarrassing, says the manager, was a scene just last year after a business meeting. "On the way out of the building, as he was saying goodbyes, Bolduc turned to one woman employee and instead of shaking her hand, pulled her toward him and stuck his tongue into...
...Coast Guard plane appears. Hoping not to be seen, passengers huddle on the floor of the boat, which is slimy with vomit and seawater. The boat heads to the desecheo to shake its pursuers. No luck. At noon another small plane with American markings breaks through the haze along the horizon...