Word: firsthand
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Many students have had no firsthand experience with different cultures until they arrive on campus and walk squarely into the middle of a grand social experiment. In the past two decades, college after college opened its doors at last to women, minorities, the poor, the disabled. Not only are most campuses far more diverse than they were 20 years ago, they are also vastly more heterogeneous than most high schools or neighborhoods. Under such hermetic conditions, the chemistry has proved volatile and relations explosive...
...traitor by two of her children, who are committed to the revolution. Yet never have her Sandinista son and daughter been unwelcome in her home. That kind of tolerance ; is hard for an embittered nation to summon up. It should help to have an exemplar who has experienced anguish firsthand...
Nelan was assigned last year to New York City, where he can now savor firsthand the astonished looks of his colleagues as he dispenses another bit of knowledge in the hallways. "We were talking the other day about etiquette," says World editor Jim Kelly, "when Bruce remarked that there is only one thing that you can remove from your mouth and set on your plate while dining with the Queen of England. Bird shot." That ought to merit at least a $500 question on Jeopardy...
Antigun opinion steadfastly ignores these realities known to rank-and-file police officers -- men and women who face crime firsthand, not police administrators who face mayors and editors. These law-enforcement professionals tell us that expecting firearm restrictions to act as crime- prevention measures is wishful thinking. They point out that proposed gun laws would not have stopped heinous crimes committed by the likes of John Hinckley Jr., Patrick Purdy, Laurie Dann or mentally disturbed, usually addicted killers. How can such crimes be used as examples of what gun control could prevent...
...gain firsthand evidence, naval agents managed to recruit a key officer of the Star Friendship Association. The man, who had had a falling-out with one of the companies in the group, agreed to wear a hidden microphone at its meetings. The club operated with almost comic formality. A day or two after new contracts were announced by the Navy, the group would meet in downtown Yokosuka. "They would determine who was interested in bidding on specific contracts," says a U.S. official. "Then they would break up into smaller groups to decide who would get the award...