Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major political spokesman like Dubois or Washington--instead he directed his energies toward developing a Black cultural and artistic identity. Regarded as an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Locke felt that Black art, music and literature were evidence that "Negro thoughts now wear the uniform...
...appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee was a contest of sorts, but it ended without a score. North arrived in his formfitting Marine uniform, his chest bedecked with medals ("fruit salad," in military parlance). In a voice quavering with suppressed (or feigned) emotion, he took the Fifth Amendment, making his refusal to cooperate somehow seem heroic. "Despite my very strong desire to provide Congress with my recollection of the facts pertaining to this matter, counsel has advised me that I should avail myself of the protections provided by that same Constitution that I have fought to support and defend...
...housing tract was uniform--the houses were all slight variations on the same design and the plots and lawns similar. Ten minutes and I was lost...
This year's uniform collegiate 19-ft., 9-in. three-point arc is an absurdity. It is more ridiculous than the old three-to-make-two-free throws rule, far more ridiculous than the possession arrow-rather-than-jump ball rule, possibly even more ridiculous than football's instant replay regulation. Then again...
...light-years across. Other, even vaster spaces seem to be largely empty of matter. Scientists have assumed that this unevenness resulted from irregularities in the big bang that began the universe between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago. But that greatest of all explosions was almost perfectly uniform, as evidenced by its leftover radiation, which radio telescopes can detect in every part of the sky. Then how did such a smooth start result in a chunky cosmos...