Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Death in none of its guises shall prevail over me, because I know all the names of death...
...hardware store but she needed the word. what was the word for such a thing? If she didn't have the word, they wouldn't give it to her. Never mind. She'd look until she found it, then point. I hate to go into hardware stores and not know the name of a thing...
...know you're not my father...
...where Mexican children used to be shamed, spanked-and sometimes expelled-for speaking Spanish in school, 160,000 youngsters like Miguel are being taught in Spanish. To counteract "the Alamo mentality" and reinforce long bruised ethnic pride, the children sing Mexican songs and do Mexican dances. "Children need to know that not everyone came over on the Mayflower," says State Senator Carlos Truan. Bilingual ed students also take tests every year in English skills to see if they can be "exited" into mainstream classes. Critics point out that unlike earlier waves of U.S. immigrants from Europe, Mexican Americans in Texas...
...tutored by George Santayana and recruited as a protégé by William James and Teddy Roosevelt; he lived long enough to receive an honorary degree (from Princeton) on the same platform with Bob Dylan. During his 85 years, Walter Lippmann came to know twelve U.S. Presidents personally and nearly everyone else who mattered in the 20th century. He consorted with poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur...