Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing clean out of his breast, just to prove he has one. What's fascinating is that this all shows signs of working. He sometimes manages to find what performers call the Zone--the elusive place where everything they try works. In Seattle an audience of Boeing aerospace machinists went wild for Gore--repeat, went wild for Gore. People laughed at his jokes. They nodded at his confession that after Vietnam and Watergate, "I was as disillusioned as anyone you've ever met." They cheered when he promised he would "stay and fight" for them. And they were mindful that...
Phillips tells the class of a restaurant she went to over the weekend that served the pie, as well as ham hocks, collard greens and smothered beef stew. "And what do all these things have in common?" The white students are still stumped when Robert Givens chimes in. "No offense to my Caucasian friends, but sounds to me like you were eating black foods," he says...
...them more. Overnight, Jeremy DeNeal had run into a wall at the juncture of routes 70 and 270. Jeremy had known everybody and done everything: partied with the partyers, prayed at Young Life, worked in the school office. Meg Kassabaum, a reserve third baseman, looks up. "The whole school went silent," she remembers. Then it fell apart. One girl cried so hard in her car that she had an accident...
...honors courses and spots on the varsity cross-country and soccer teams, Anne is booked solid. She is so strapped for free time that she has to "check her schedule" before penciling in time for her equally overextended friends. This afternoon six of them met for lunch and went thrift-store shopping. But an hour into the outing, people started peeling off for other commitments...
...black student. Rhodes has a 3.6 GPA, and in most of her advanced classes, she's the only black. Paya used to take pride in that status and in her family's record of excellence at Webster Groves. Her oldest brother maintained a 4.0 for four straight years; another went on to Washington University. Her mother and a third brother are also Webster grads, and her younger sister is following her on the honors track...