Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heroic to his wife. Frequently away on military duty, at home he began turning Fergie into a golf widow as he pursued his passion for the sport. Said Anne Fernley, a London housewife: "It's a pity, really. They're a nice couple with nice children." Dudley Hicks, a shoe-shop manager in the capital, disapproved. "They have a position to uphold," he said. "They should have stayed together for the children...
...growing urban black underclass. Most of the blacks who talked into Terkel's tape recorder do not think they will ever be five-fifths American. Joseph Lattimore, 50, a Chicago insurance broker, describes himself as typical. "Being black in America is like being forced to wear ill-fitting shoes," he says. "Some people can bear the uncomfort more than others. Some people can block it from their mind, some can't. When you see some acting docile and some acting militant, they have one thing in common: the shoe is uncomfortable. It always has been and always will...
General Motors finally dropped the other shoe. Two months after announcing that it planned to eliminate 74,000 jobs and shut down 21 plants, the leading U.S. automaker offered some details. At the same time, GM reported a $4.5 billion loss in 1991, an all-time record for any company...
...down a Black woman from Harlem and a guy who works in a shoe store in Cambridge, we'd have national health insurance," says Chapman...
...something I've dreamed of ever since I put on skates as a little girl." (She is still little, shoe size 3.) At age 20, Kristi Yamaguchi, of Fremont, Calif., faced the international press, blissfully fingering her gold medal. She had nothing else to say. No thoughts about what she would do next year, or what she would do tomorrow. She had just made it through the arduous course of a fairy tale: pluck vs. luck...