Word: yoing
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INTRO—California's a Brand New Game PART 1—Yo Soy Tu Padre PART 2—Angels Aren't Just In the Outfield PART 3—Who Needs Grade Inflation When You Have a Bunch of A's? PART 4—They Might Be Giants And So Might...
...PART 1—Yo Soy Tu Padre
INTRO—California's a Brand New Game PART 1—Yo Soy Tu Padre PART 2—Angels Aren't Just in the Outfield...
...Like some of its members, perhaps, the fat-acceptance movement has yo-yoed in size over the years. In the late 1960s, small groups were active on both coasts. NAAFA itself started in 1969 in New York City, although it was originally called the National Association to Aid Fat Americans. Engineer Bill Fabrey had tired of the discrimination his overweight wife faced and started the group as an advocate for the big-boned. But NAAFA remained at the periphery for years, prompting some members to argue for a more confrontational approach. Taking their cue from the radical left, several West...
...they want to get across. Many of us do something similar inside and outside our particular communities, but you make it sound like a sport that is also for African Americans a tool of survival. So why didn't you address the policemen as fellow Cantabrigians? What was that "yo' mama" talk instead of saying simply, in the same register your interlocutor was using, "Look, officer, I'm sorry for your trouble. Thanks for checking on my house when you thought I was being burgled, but this is my home, and if you give me a minute, I'll find...