Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amanda, an abandoned wife, struggles to maintain her dignity through the memories of her Southern gentlewoman past, especially her days on Blue Mountain, where she imagined herself to be the heartthrob of an abundance of "gentleman callers." Her main purpose in life is to see her children married and successful. In the process of achieving these goals she manages to alienate Tom completely and to cause Laura to withdraw even further into herself...
...Central American Solidarity Alliance (CASA) planned the meeting Wednesday night on learning that about 3200 U.S. troops were sent to southern Honduras following reports that Nicaraguan forces had entered that country, according to Kevin P. Whalen, a CASA organizer enrolled in the Divinity School...
Super Tuesday was useful not so much in selecting a major Southern presidential candidate as it was in picking a nominee. And so with the rest of the primaries meaning nothing--for the Republicans at least--it is little coincidence that the brokering for the vice presidential spot has already begun. It is even less surprising that many of those now brokering for vice president were instrumental in getting Super Tuesday adopted...
...liquid, a black goo." Even the best-preserved swaths of text were peppered with tiny holes where acids in the ink had eaten all the way through the parchment. Says another member of the team, Bruce Zuckerman, director of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of Southern California: "Time has not been kind to the scroll. Like the Titanic, it is sinking...
...total of about 4,000 images were shot in Jerusalem and carted back to Southern Cal for study. Only a few dozen have been developed so far, but they have already shed new light on the customs of the ancient Jews and the cultural backdrop against which Christianity developed. Most startling are new passages that record in great detail the physical beauty of Abraham's wife Sarah. These include descriptions of the contours of Sarah's breasts, which Charlesworth interprets as proof that Judaic culture was not as puritanical or repressed as many scholars have suggested...