Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...remember when I was little and we used to go trucking around the Hopi reservation [in Arizona]," she says, slowing rolling a cigarette between her fingers as she speaks. "We were really poor then. Sounds funny to say it. We didn't know it then. But sitting at Harvard, surrounded by all this affluence, you realize no one here thinks of eating road kills. But that is what we ate. And my dad would go out and shoot squirrels. Now I walk around and see also those fat squirrels scampering about and I think hmmm," she says, cocking her head...
...begin to get real scared. When you see that happen all around you, you realize that Harvard is a bastion, an ivory tower, a place where you can be safe and get some work done. Because I don't intend to be knocked off by them," she says. "I know it's paranoia, but it's reasoned paranoia. There would be a lot more attention drawn to the harassment, or possibly, the death, of a Harvard student than to that of 'just another Indian...
...Carter Administration, by now quite fatalistic, warned against another burst of optimism. The basic U.S. position, as summed up by a State Department official: "We don't know what's happening, because the Iranians don't know what's happening...
...predebate practice and coaching, Reagan did not entirely escape trouble. The most embarrassing instance came when he began to answer a question about racial tension, saying: "When I was young, and when this country didn't even know it had a racial problem ..." What he presumably was referring to was the time before the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, the rise of the civil rights movement and America's national efforts to redress racial inequality and lack of opportunity. But it was not well put, and Carter quickly riposted that those who suffered discrmination "certainly knew...
...further immobilized by the sheer number of subcommittees dealing with any one issue. With the power of the leadership in both the House and the Senate reduced to almost nothing these days, bills go to several committees simultaneously, which then report conflicting versions to the floor. Want to know when to expect a coherent energy policy out of Congress? Ask any or all of the 83 committees and subcommittees now handling the crisis...