Word: ways
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...utterly unique." She has avoided plunging into the President's business and generating the kind of hostility stirred up by Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet she heard the human cries and carried the banner for compassion when the Administration's number crunchers studied the bleak budget ledgers and looked the other way...
...always. We had some bad arguments. Often we turned on those who created noise. Two of our group, the Australian and the Irishman, took way too many risks. After a few months they acquired a hero complex. They wanted to make trips out of the building. The rest of us protested that it would draw too much attention. Imad was very much opposed. After several weeks, the two of them insisted. So we made them sign a paper saying they could not return. They left and somehow got to other houses...
Fears for the biosphere are still strong around the world, but the expectations of Earth Day have given way to endless debate and procrastination. A TIME poll highlights the public confusion that has helped produce the present policy paralysis...
...Hamptons have gone home to Marion from Los Angeles, and their journey is part of a discreet reverse migration of Southern blacks with second thoughts. "When we left the South, it was a one-way deal," says Joseph Hampton, 57, . a retired aircraft-parts machinist. So it was for 6.5 million other blacks who fled northward between 1910 and 1970 in one of the greatest transplantations in American history. "The first migration was a huge wave crashing on the beach," says Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, a forthcoming book about this vast crossing. "This is the small undertow...
...blood. Flesh and blood, we get along with one another," says Isaac Scott, 77, who went back to the rural town of Barnwell, S.C., after 49 years in New Haven, Conn., mostly as a construction worker. "The Southern accent sounds beautiful to me now," says Dykes. "That's the way it should have been the whole time...