Word: hemmed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...scared, you know." But if segregation drove Hampton away from his roots, it also helped drive him back: Florence Heights, the predominantly white west-side neighborhood he chose in Los Angeles, quickly turned all black after his arrival. And while partitions and signs did not hem in the Hamptons' liberty, crime and congestion eventually did. A family of four was killed when a gunman mistook their home for that of an enemy. Another neighbor, about three doors down, lost a son in a shooting, and rival gang members took revenge on the young man even after his death by riddling...
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...secular saints. Mandela is unique among heroes because he is a living embodiment of black liberation. Like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer enjoying their own eulogies from a hiding place in the church, he can bathe in the adulation of a worldwide throng yearning to, if not touch the hem of his garment, at least catch a glimpse of him whirring by in a motorcade...
Though Saint Laurent's 1990 offerings were inspired largely by highlights of his old collections, most of the other designers were looking closely at various costume spectacles during France's bicentennial last summer. This fall the thing most likely to cover the knee will be the hem of a grand swirling cape; almost every designer had his models sweeping the runways with them...
...sharply, in fact, that within three days the Kremlin began to hem and haw. Apparently concerned that Gorbachev's words might be interpreted as an explicit push for a single German state, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told Soviet reporters that "it is not the idea of German unity itself but the revival of sinister shadows of the past" that raises alarm. He proposed that some way be found for the citizens of the Soviet Union, Europe, the U.S. and Canada to express their opinions on unification...