Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more extreme fear among blacks was expressed in an Atlanta speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tax rebellion is now being used as the new code word-like busing and Bakke-for racism and classism," he told a national P.T.A. convention. The revolt, he claimed later, may prove to be "the greatest threat the black middle class has ever known...
...thrown up heavy roadblocks and who cruised the areas where observances were held. A police official had warned one leader of the community: "If one stone is thrown, I won't even waste my men's time in coming to pick you up. I will send word for you to pack your suitcase and report to Modderbee Prison for detention." The warning was believed. Admitted one of The Children: "The police have scared everybody, even...
...Rapids. At a recent girls' track meet, runners, shotputters, hurdlers, high jumpers pitted themselves, one by one, in the age-old contests to run faster, leap higher, throw farther. For many, there were accomplishments they once would have thought impossible. A mile relay team fell into triumphant embrace when word came of qualification for the state finals. Team members shouted the joy of victory?"We did it!" ?and then asked permission to break training: "Now can we go to the Dairy Queen, Coach?" Granted...
...that it is not a conqueror after all, but a small and vulnerable self. Instead of wooing the mother, the child makes more and more coercive demands that she act as an extension of itself. As the child moves toward psychological birth, and the first use of the word "I," the mother's role becomes even more frustrating. If she gives in to the coercion, she undermines the child's independence. If she does not, she enforces its sense of aloneness. Kaplan's message: "The drama has no happy solutions. It is well nigh impossible...
...aficionados it is one of the world's most beguiling cities: brutal, beautiful indestructible. M.F.K. Fisher, who first visited Marseille in 1929 and has been returning there as often as possible ever since, is haunted by the place. She calls the city insolite, an indefinable French word meaning, well, indefinable. Yet she does manage to catch the essential, elusive Marseille: its smells (mostly fish, wine and paint); its sounds (church bells, ships' sirens, the howl of the mistral); its institutions, terrain, architecture and people...