Word: shedding
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...other hand, if I try to destroy myself to be like the people I work with, if I shed myself of the privileges that I've had all my life--well, I think that's impossible. If there's anything I've learned about the people I've worked with, I have found that they are perhaps more accepting of my life than I am of it. I think we live with guilt, we live with our Puritan heritage, we live with all of the self-derogation and self-assault that goes with complicated middle-class Western life...
Leonine Hazards. Such biological befuddlement is more evident among animals who have either been raised by humans or brought to zoos as youngsters. Under a keeper's warm and sympathetic care, Hediger explains, they gradually shed their innate fear of man and begin to accept him as an equal in every respect. Occasionally, after such "imprinting" or "assimilation," as animal behaviorists call these processes, male animals regard their keeper as a sexual rival. A male lion, for example, usually sits benignly by while the keeper strokes his lioness. But if the keeper shows affection for the lioness while...
Similar "air shed" action is starting between some smog-bound states and is considered preferable to federally imposed air standards, which might not fit local climate conditions. Still, far greater federal action-especially money-is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
When I arrived in Marks a few days after the trial, Mrs. Collins dragged me along to a house around the corner, a dull grey frame woodshed. The one-room shed had been built by Presley Franklin's father and a few other people caught up in the "Movement," the atrophied remainder of the county's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the party that had elected black representatives from all over the state in 1964 and sent them to Atlantic City to challenge the all-white official delegation. The hut was to hold the weekly citizenship classes. It was built...
...Staten, his head bowed over a piece of wood he was whittling in the darkness of the shed, told me that he was about to make another trip up to Chicago to see if he could find a job there...