| 单词 | decade |
| 例句 | “My mind shot back a decade,” he later recalled, “to that day we had marched into Vietnam, swaggering, confident, and full of idealism.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z To hide for decades inside this strange, narrow house! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade, Minya had it to herself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They’ve spent decades here prolonging the brief lives of the undernourished, accustomed completely to the tragedy playing out around us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In a decade of solid, original research, Luce made his second great discovery: that gender identity is established very early on in life, about the age of two. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Home of mice and damp and the stink of stranded shellfish, as if a huge tide swept in decades ago and took its time draining away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But nearly three decades earlier, World War I had also been heralded as the event that would break the back of race prejudice. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Funny how something she’d treasured for over a decade could be so quickly forgotten. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Emblematic of this rocketing growth were the Olmec's neighbors in Oaxaca, the Zapotec, whom Flannery and Marcus have studied for more than two decades. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Goldstein himself, it was said, had sometimes been seen there, years and decades ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next decade, Ogden and Kira enjoyed a peaceful, happy existence, living and working in relative seclusion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In fact, for nearly three decades, news stories regarding virtually all street crime have disproportionately featured African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The third, Eastasia, only emerged as a distinct unit after another decade of confused fighting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A decade later, she might have likened their family to astronauts, floating in space; that was how ungrounded they were. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We decided to prioritize resentencing hearings in Louisiana for the “old-timers,” juvenile lifers who had been there for decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z That is the landscape I focus on, a field of oblongs, gently undulating where the earth beneath has buckled, from decade after decade of winter frost. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z However, over the following decade more settlers poured over the Appalachians. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z During his decades in the North, Jenkins had a house in the countryside and cultivated a large garden that helped feed his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Check out these pants,” I said, pointing to a polyester pair that had not been popular for decades. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A decade after my graduation from Performing Arts, I visited the school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A decade of invisibility had done away with any hesitancy she might once have felt about such flagrant staring. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Two decades after the fact I discovered that my rage was gone, and had been for years. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Popular items were the boxes on the floor filled with Spanish LPs from past decades, old mambo and salsa records, plena, bomba, Latin hits our parents would dance to. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z For the next five decades, Houseman edited and wrote screenplays, earning admiration for his work. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z We faced a fork in the road one decade after Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were laid to rest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the end of the decade, some justices had become openly critical of the review that death penalty cases received. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Even though capital punishment quadrupled within a decade, there were still only 478 executions in the entire United States during the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps they, too, had little in common apart from three children and a decade of their lives. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Ah, Hazel Levesque,” he said, “you cost me dearly! If not for you, I would have risen decades ago, and this world would already be Gaea’s. But no matter!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In fact, for over a decade, when Cleofes Apodaca was in his prime, frogs were as scarce in that town as camels and gold bullion. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I taught today,” she explains, aware that he is looking at her—she preferred to wear a suit when she taught, she says, given that her students were only a decade younger than she was. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His grandmother points to a neighbor with pale, scaly skin who has sniffed glue for a decade. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In earlier decades, persons newly successful and ambitious for social mobility similarly seized upon certain ‘family words.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We can tell stories about what happened a week or a year or a decade ago. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I imagine that this is what it must’ve been like decades ago, before the cold lights of computer screens and tablets and phones permanently eliminated the peace of darkness from our lives. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I’ve been combining moments from different photos, blending decades, people, and worlds that don’t belong together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z One of the perks of coming here for more than a decade is that I know the hospital just as well as I knew the house I grew up in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I first encountered the idea of a new racial caste system more than a decade ago, when a bright orange poster caught my eye. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Experiments carried out about a decade ago showed that after treatment with this chemical there is a sharp increase in the nitrate content of corn and of sugar beets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the 1920s, some 80 percent of black Durham residents lived in substandard housing, a figure that remained unchanged in the Hayti area four decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I must have dimly realized that Harry would marry one day and have a family of his own, but I reckoned it wouldn’t happen for decades, at least. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t ready to abandon clinical practice, certainly not in Haiti, where he had worked for almost two decades. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was a stable instability that would endure for the rest of Howards life, which was destined to be many decades shorter than Dorothy’s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It had been a decade or so since I’d eaten pork, but suddenly that seemed irrelevant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But in spite of a decade of significant progress, the problem is far from solved. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Osage were also able to retrieve at least a portion of the oil funds mismanaged over decades by the U.S. government. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The furniture is at least two decades old, but it all matches. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He has been gone for so many decades I have lost count. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The town had been a resort destination, new and planned, for only a decade or so before the invasion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps racism is like DDT, the poison that was banned decades ago, but which, because it persists in the environment, is still found within our bodies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A little more than a decade after the end of the Seven Years’ War, the American Revolution began; the revolt would strip England of its richest colony. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the early decades, women workers were easy for the men to ignore. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even if she didn’t have to limit herself to one suitcase full, it would take her decades to collect this many books, let alone read them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Those were old arms, wrinkly and spotted—arms that had worked hard for decades. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Industrial Revolution was driven in large part by developments in chemistry, and yet as an organized science chemistry barely existed for decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But in the next decade, the stock market crashed in 1929 and America suffered through the Great Depression. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In the next few decades we should have definite answers to which of the hundred nearest stars have large planetary companions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He hadn’t been so happy or so sad for almost a decade. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Raised as an aristocrat, he was dispatched to the academy in Athens at the age of seventeen to study philosophy under Plato and spent two decades there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Upon assuming the wardenship of Sing Sing, Lewis Lawes sat down with a stack of “musty reports and records that had not been looked at in decades.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A decade earlier, on May 17, 1954, in the Brown v. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a hoary restatement of Lamarck’s idea—of adaptation morphing directly into hereditary change—decades after geneticists had pointed out the conceptual errors of Lamarckism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For better or worse, the coming decades were to be about music taking on the task of reforming humanity, dreaming up a new Utopia and leading the arts to unite mankind. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Her niece Minou has noted more than once the irony of Dedd’s “new” profession, actually embarked upon a decade ago, after her divorce. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When you returned from your relativistic journey, what a difference there would be between your friends and you, they having aged decades, say, and you having aged hardly at all! Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even for Barnard’s Star, the investigation must be painstaking, a search for microscopic displacements of position on photographic plates exposed at the telescope over a period of decades. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the subways, by the end of the decade, there were 75 percent fewer felonies than there had been at the decade’s start. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like Demeter had set the timer on all the plants to grow several decades ago, then forgotten to come back and check on them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Whoever passed on the virus, its effects were still visible a decade later in 1792, when the British navigator George Vancouver led the first European expedition to survey Puget Sound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Over the decades, without much acclaim beyond his community and the world of high school theater, Volpe has transformed lives, thousands of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I’ve been privileged to be an educator here for over two decades,” he began in a booming voice. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z But his revolutionary ideas about the place of the Earth in the Universe had already been formulated by the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z During the previous decade, the government had silenced most of the radical press, and there remained a prohibition on publishing the words or pictures of any banned or imprisoned individuals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been married a decade when John Richardson developed a toothache so bad it made him fall from his horse. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Once, when a high school teacher asked students to list their goals for the next decade, she wrote, “having a college degree” and “not being married.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In 1949, however, an unusual and tragic turn of events would bind Dorothy to the West Area computing office for the next decade. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The merchants of Boston had for some decades made some portion of their fortunes through smuggling, the Young Men of the Gitney family being, in this respect, no exception. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the young impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe fighting the British. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By now he’d spent more than a decade on the mainland, but Hawaii still mattered to him deeply. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By then, I was a lapsed Catholic; my sisters and I had been pretty well Americanized since our arrival in this country a decade before, so really, I didn't have a good excuse. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Father Amadi led the first decade, and at the end, he started an Igbo praise song. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a simple school bus, decades old. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They could not stop thinking about the men they had met “who had obvious scars on their hands where they’d had skin grafts,” John recalled decades later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the ninth decade of the twentieth century the strategic missile and bomber forces of the Soviet Union and the United States were aiming warheads at over 15,000 designated targets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer suspected the root cause of this growing problem stemmed from decades back—long before Peru adopted the model WHO program in 1991—when drug-resistant strains were spawned by inadequately financed and unsupervised treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In reading them half a decade later, one is reminded how young McCandless was, and how passionate. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It had sat in that same location for decades and had a loyal following of people who would cross boroughs and state lines to buy bread and pastries there. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It’s a disturbing thing, after a decade of being told to tuck in shirttails and walk like a lady, to see your own mother unkempt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The ruinous decade had scarred the city, as it had every other: poor boxes on the street, people living on railcars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even old stallions, decades away from the track, still duel with one another up and down the fences of breeding farms. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z More intensive farming might produce the requisite surplus, but cannot be sustained; the plowed land, exposed to the elements, is destroyed in as little as a decade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In his mind, my entire life is this gigantic chess match, where every tiny move I make in the seventh grade has to be perfectly designed to bring about some glorious endgame decades later. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z For security reasons, she and William could not do what other couples did, and discuss “things at night that worry you and so on,” as Elizebeth put it decades later. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “The entire world has changed in the past decade.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Jack called the decades he devoted to his family and business “time for the stomach.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z His face was so creased with worry, he looked at least a decade older. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For decades most researchers believed manioc, like maize, had no wild ancestor; the crop was thought to have arisen from a chance combination of several relatives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Pregnant women could now be criminally prosecuted and sent to prison for decades if there was any evidence that they had used drugs at any point during their pregnancy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Only a few decades ago, no one knew these effects of either radiation or chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The inability of many poor women to get adequate health care, including prenatal and postpartum care, has been a serious problem in this country for decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists argued for decades over how it was achieved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Just 8 percent of undergraduates in 2004 came from families in the bottom half of the income distribution, down from 11 percent a decade earlier. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Now, a decade after his death, I’m hoping that “Speaking of Courage” makes good on Norman Bowker’s silence. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In just the past decade, they have uncovered a huge mass of brand-new information, and there is plenty more ahead; the biologic revolution is evidently still in its early stages. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Colder, longer winters and more glacial ice than has been seen in decades. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And they did remain silent about their services for a decade or so. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Most of the black pages are filled with articles clipped from newspapers, but there are also handwritten letters, the dates ranging from only a few years previous to more than a decade ago. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Four decades ago, employers were free to discriminate explicitly on the basis of race; today employers feel free to discriminate against those who bear the prison label—i.e., those labeled criminals by the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Leo says, “It’ll be decades. Maybe a hundred years before the forest flourishes again.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Here, near the planet’s mantle, you could find the last coin-operated videogames ever made, from the first few decades of the twenty-first century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’d learned that in a little more than a decade, Clarkston had become one of the most diverse communities in America. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z As far as I know, Haymitch has only been here once, when he was on his Victory Tour decades ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Murphy’s husband died a decade ago, I learn, leaving her with this big old house and little money. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a rental house in Yonkers, one of countless, faceless rental places she lived in for decades, like nearly all jockeys’ wives. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades, civil rights leaders have been saying things like “we all want a colorblind society, we just disagree how to get there” in defense of race-conscious programs like affirmative action or racial data collection. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But the Pirate’s Den has existed in one form or another almost as long as the internet’s been around, and every decade or so, there’s an assassination that actually goes through. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The mortal conflict would rage for decades until all civilization was swept away, and the earth goddess awakened fully. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the previous decade he had been let go from jobs at Harvard and the National Forest Service and eventually, for want of a better place to stick him, given a desk at the U.S. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z According to the goddess, in older times darajas had begun their formal training with the splendor around age ten, and spent an additional decade learning its nuances under the tutelage of several masters. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And I would, from time to time, sit in the humble homes of black people in that city who were entering their tenth decade of life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But after four decades, Volpe knows how to stay on the acceptable side of the line—even while presenting material that almost anywhere else would be received as offensive. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The place Dorothy Vaughan now called home was on the cusp of a defense industry boom that would be measured not in years but in decades. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I wonder if this might once have been a little bookstore, although it’s been decades since these shelves held anything but dust. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Two decades later, though more than thirty thousand blacks were living in Chicago, only five hundred had jobs in the meatpacking industry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When new leadership in Seoul cut off the free fertilizer in 2008, North Korea tried to do nationally what it has been doing for decades in its labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Everything that I had accumulated in nearly two decades could fit in these few boxes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z During the two decades I spent on Robben Island she was an indispensable pillar of support and comfort to myself personally. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While his cover was more or less attached to the binding, the yellowed pages made the book seem like it was a few decades old. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit had clocked a new track record that would stand untouched for a decade: a mile and a quarter in 2:01 'A. It was the second-fastest ten furlongs ever run in American racing history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t remember the other monks’ names, or even the prayers that had been his vocation for decades, but the stories poured from him, and Lazlo listened. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A trait that goes underground for decades only to reappear when everyone has forgotten about it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And since those decades were back in style during the nineties, we had a bevy of bell-bottoms, embroidered hippie tops, and flowing floral dresses to share between us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For decades, black elites engaged in private rescue efforts to make black communities tidy, clean, and respectable in a futile effort to gain white approval. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Dobyns had been dipping his toe into archival research for more than a decade, with results he found intriguing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Couldn’t they take a few decades off and let Percy live his life? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Captain John Palliser, traveling through the same lands as Fidler six decades later, lamented the Indians’ “disastrous habit of setting the prairie on fire for the most trivial and worse than useless reasons.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sergeant Michael Rafferty was guarding Checkpoint Charlie, the precise spot where US and Soviet tanks had faced off three decades earlier when the Wall first went up. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She stands alone in Madame Manec’s room and smells peppermint, candle wax, six decades of loyalty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But he never completely lost his balance, not even a decade had taken that away, and in fifteen minutes he arrived at the Rio Grande. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Familiar questions are asked decades after the end of the old Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It happened in 1848, long before I was surrounded by concrete and cars, when I was just a few decades old—still a youngster, by red oak standards. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Parthia and Rome had been engaged in a tug of war for decades as provinces along the eastern border of Rome’s territory changed hands and shifted loyalties. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Far from resisting the emergence of the new caste system, Clinton escalated the drug war beyond what conservatives had imagined possible a decade earlier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The reality is that, just a few decades after the collapse of one caste system, we constructed another. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sesame Street, after all, was a product of the 1960s, and in the intervening three decades major strides had been made in understanding how children’s minds work. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His black hair was buzzed close to his head, his face smooth and youthful like Deborah’s except for his brow, which was creased from decades of scowling. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade later, here I am again, still chasing someone faster, stronger, and better. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It was a question that would occupy his thoughts for most of the next decade and lead to the publication in early 1917 of a paper entitled "Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And because the drug war has been raging for decades now, the parents of children coming of age today were targets of the drug war as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We know that people in Lkossa have been getting brutally killed for decades in the same location, in generally the same manner every time.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And for the first time in decades, maybe centuries, the ship was free to turn in the wind. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Her Pakistani accent is thick, even though she’s lived in the United States for almost three decades. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It had taken two excruciatingly slow decades for Hugo de Vries to become a convert to Mendel’s ideas of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Jefferson began to gather, from relatives and newspaper clippings and other records, bits of information about the murder—an endeavor that spanned two decades. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Blacks in Atlanta waged an effective boycott of Jim Crow trolley cars in 1894, and in the next decade, boycotts spread to over a dozen Southern cities, including Houston and Mobile. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He showed Joe wood planes, their wooden handles burnished by decades of use, their blades so sharp and precise they could shave off curls of wood as thin and transparent as tissue paper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This was why, in the decades since the simulation’s launch, the city had become a kind of high-tech Mecca. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The new tunnel design set the stage for the second of the decade’s significant developments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes defenders have well over one hundred clients at a time; many of these clients are facing decades behind bars or life imprisonment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His real name was Hector Henry—people started calling him Cootie when he got polio decades earlier; he was never sure why. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He’d been with the organization for a decade by now and done a lot of its more menial chores along the way. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Over the decades, this pattern of discrimination persisted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z During the first three decades after the Treaty of Paris was signed, allied Indigenous nations in the Ohio Country and the southern states were involved in several struggles to resist settler encroachment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z More than four decades have passed since the United States was defeated in Vietnam, yet the veterans I interviewed had vivid memories of their year “in country.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For decades, they had been required to keep their professional secrets locked away from each other. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z You’ve got auto plants right here in Ohio that have been around for decades closing their doors and laying off workers who’ve never known another job in their entire life. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “This is only the third time in the past decade that you’ve left home, but someone named Edmon said it was important.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Its populations have dwindled alarmingly within the past decade. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We knelt next to the cane chairs and Aunty Ifeoma started the first decade. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She had vowed to Mr. Carter for decades that she wouldn't die until he came home from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My company commander would probably have over a decade of life on me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But a decade of ruthlessly honed instinct rebels at such passivity. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Ogden Morrow had coded the place himself decades ago and was still its sole owner. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Over the past decade these problems have cast long shadows, but we have been slow to recognize them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She was a woman in her eighties during the first decade of my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, so you pop up after half a decade to ‘surprise’ me like we’ve been sororal sweethearts from a distance this whole time?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Hampton Roads had become the embodiment of what Cold War president Dwight D. Eisenhower would a decade later dub the “military- industrial complex.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z By the end of the decade, there were over twelve thousand freedmen in the state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She lived in the Bay Area for over a decade, but she never learned to speak English beyond words like "please" and "thank you." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For more than three decades, images of black men in handcuffs have been a regular staple of the evening news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But a decade later, the rapidly growing prison population inevitably led to a deterioration in the conditions of confinement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She finally found freedom after four decades of unbearable grief. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was almond-buttery with sweat and sun, her face corrugated with a thousand caramel wrinkles and her hair looking flour dusted, but the rest of her seemed decades younger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a decade of Tasmania’s settlement by Europeans with dogs, Aboriginal Tasmanians, who had never before seen dogs, began to breed them in large numbers for use in hunting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compared with cereals and legumes, they had the drawback of not starting to yield food until at least three years after planting, and not reaching full production until after as much as a decade. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The delay might take a decade; let us say a decade. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His final decades were spent mostly storming out of labs and lecture halls all across Europe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z TeLinde, one of the top cervical cancer experts in the country, was a dapper and serious fifty-six-year-old surgeon who walked with an extreme limp from an ice-skating accident more than a decade earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Within a few weeks, my father—who years earlier had not been able to guess my age within half a decade—knew about my classes, my boyfriend, my summer job. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The figures at the base of columns are the first year of the decade, so 1470 refers to the decade 1470-1479. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It won a design of the decade award from the Industrial Designers Society of America. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Ashima had gone to visit her; for the occasion her grandmother had entered the kitchen after over a decade’s retirement, to cook Ashima a light goat and potato stew. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This estimate was very roughly corroborated two decades later by the Marquis de Denonville, governor of New France, who destroyed the annual harvest of four adjacent Haudenosaunee villages to deter future attacks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The real public school system, the one run by the government, had been an underfunded, overcrowded train wreck for decades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He cleared his throat and declared that new Government statistics proved last year's alfalfa harvest had set a record for the decade. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z During those two decades remarkable discoveries were made that changed the entire science of medicine. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She said people had been promising her information for decades and never delivering it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z By the time he began, it had been buried under the lime of falsehood for a decade. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z College graduates have received steady pay increases over the past two decades, while the pay of everyone else has risen little more than the rate of inflation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z These realities suggest—if the past two decades of endless war somehow did not—that the drug war is doomed to fail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The lesson wasn’t lost on the civil rights workers two decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For the chief virtue of a gradual approach was to extend the cost of compensation over several decades so that the full bill never landed at one time or even on one generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For more than a decade, Sahagun and other religious authorities regarded the conversion as a triumph. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were filled with research that over decades the family had obsessively collected about W. W. Vaughan’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A decade later, however, a subsequent ascent of the mountain helped establish the trajectory of my life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z For nearly a decade, Jefferson and Washington had corresponded about making navigation improvements in the Potomac on the presumption that it afforded a direct link between the vast American interior and the Chesapeake Bay. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For decades, his father had felt that in order to make it in America it was necessary to conceal an essential element of his identity from his friends, his neighbors, and even his own children. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Pinmei clutched her knees, grimacing as the grime of decades rubbed against her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A combat wound, well healed, such as a leg blown off by cannon fire, would become new, open, horrible, even after decades of healing. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Domestics were suddenly not needed anymore in households for which they had toiled for decades. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Over the past three decades it has come to play a greater, not lesser, role in important ways. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A decade and a half later, I was still that hyper, bouncing girl that my mom had enrolled in gymnastics classes so I’d have a place to burn off all that excess energy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After more than a decade on the road, however, Stanton grew tired of touring. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But unlike the undulant fever that had afflicted him more than a decade prior, he didn’t get better. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This question represents a crescendo of decades’ worth of research. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Aside from the four decades that separated their ages, they were a study in opposites. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Nearly five decades later, the clock—in unmoving silence— tells the story to worshipers and to pilgrims who walk through the church doors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even after two decades I can close my eyes and return to that porch at the Tip Top Lodge. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After several decades of research, I have developed a set of functions for music that takes into account the role of neurology and physiology as well as culture in its relationship to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z At the end of a decade or more of intensive chemical control, entomologists were finding that problems they had considered solved a few years earlier had returned to plague them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A decade later, that number had skyrocketed to more than 40,000 warheads and bombs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Huntsman looked as if he had aged a decade when she returned to his camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z About two decades later various other organic phosphates came into use as insecticides, as we have seen, and soon cases reminiscent of the ginger paralysis episode began to occur. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then came a run of punishing dry spells, many more than a decade in duration, interrupted by gigantic floods. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And since the middle of the last decade, mathematicians had meant women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Until a few decades ago, bacteria were a genuine household threat, and although most of us survived them, we were always aware of the nearness of death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In December 2010, more than a decade after Pena first told me about his project, his team published the results: some of the mutations matched. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The earth has become, just in the last decade, too small a place. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For more than a decade after its startup in 1905, the Defender advised southern blacks to stay put. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The drug had gotten stronger and stronger over the decades. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In the three decades since construction ended, much of the roadbed has been obliterated by washouts, brush, and beaver ponds, but the bus is still there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the decades and centuries to come, there would often be fierce debate as to what constituted an appropriate combination of notes, or what cluster was beautiful, or ugly, or seductive, or discordant. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the decades that followed, extensive excavations revealed to increasingly intrigued eighteenth-century Europeans how sophisticated - and, to their consternation, how saucy - their ancient ancestors had been. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The new studies of mobility, which methodically track people’s earnings over decades, have found far less movement. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In like manner, he did work in optics that transformed our understanding of light and laid the foundation for the science of spectroscopy, and again chose not to share the results for three decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z During the next few decades, they discovered more than eighty large paleo-Indian sites throughout the United States, Mexico, and southern Canada. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Born in 1063 a.d., 8-Deer was a shirttail cousin to the ruling family of Tilantongo, which had been engaged for decades in a dynastic struggle with the kingdom of Red and White Bundle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nights like that could put decades on a fairy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Her career as a code breaker spanned more than three decades—and it all started because of Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The defeat at Fallen Timbers was a severe blow to the Indigenous nations of the Ohio Country, but they would reorganize their resistance during the following decade. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Even a decade ago, critics of President Bill Clinton’s call for a national conversation on the subject didn’t think so. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Kepler was both inspired in his search for the harmony of planetary motion and delayed for more than a decade by the attractions of Pythagorean doctrine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z King had gained national prominence during the Montgomery bus boycott a decade earlier. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have not been starving for more than a decade just to give in to a Dauntless woman with a leg injury,” Evelyn says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Aimee had been involved in gymnastics since she was six, which meant Ronnie had also spent almost three decades immersed in the sport, first as a gymnastics mom and later as a coach. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But within barely a decade, the Klan had been extinguished, largely by legal and military interventions out of Washington, D.C. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The old wooden houses looked lopsided on their foundations after decades of long winters; poking out of the snow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z During my time at the Clinic nearly three decades ago, Dr. Luce ran me through a barrage of tests. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So it was for more than two decades. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Instead the Quetzalcoatl story first appears decades later. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Since Henrietta Lacks died decades before I began writing this book, I relied on interviews, legal documents, and her medical records to re-create scenes from her life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In 458 BC, a few decades after Pythagoras’s death, the playwright Aeschylus used this odd logic to provide one of history’s most extraordinary legal defenses of matricide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It could not have been easy for him bunking in with a group of old men set in their ways who had been together for the previous two decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their figures held up, however, and would be confirmed decades later by more sophisticated measuring equipment than they had at hand in 1926. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z During the decade following Redemption, the convict population grew ten times faster than the general population: “Prisoners became younger and blacker, and the length of their sentences soared.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His body was gray-brown and dingy, except for his right foot, which glowed a polished white from decades of hands rubbing it for luck. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The North Carolina government—half of which crowded into Garrison’s dining room that night—purchased existing slaves from farmers at favorable rates, just as Great Britain had done when it abolished slavery decades ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was also furious that although President Nixon had said he’d be invited to the White House in 1972, the invitation never arrived; Bobby had been fuming about it for two decades. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "My family's been in Louisiana for decades and my mother has French blood, believe it or not. My skin might look like coffee-no-cream, but I've got some au lait in here somewhere." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s the Survivalists that lobbied to retake the cities nearly a decade ago, the idea being that if the cities were safe they could provide an anchor to regain the continent. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In particular, Devine remembered a single day in his youth, an experience, a brief moment of horror that had not returned to plague him for decades. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not concentrate on any of the glorious Mysteries, and knew that Jaja did not, either, because he kept forgetting when it was his turn to start a decade of the rosary. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The thing's been on the surface for decades. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From the early 1980s to the end of the decade, there was an almost 61 percent jump in the murder rate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And only within the past decade have all the varied pieces of research come to form a whole so that biological oxidation could become part of the common knowledge of biologists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The county jail was a windowless, antiquated structure that had served as an armory in the decade before the Civil War. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A little more than a decade later, the rosy picture was fraying around the edges. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “That was an awesome wedding. If everyone hadn’t gotten so worked up about money, it would’ve been the wedding of the decade.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Not all the changes of the past decades had yet altered the fact that the North was the economic ruler of the planet. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z But in the heart of this chaos, Tyler had half a decade’s pencil shavings, cataloged by year. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A few decades ago, many researchers would have included jump- starting Andean civilization on the honor roll of Mesoamerican accomplishments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Reading the paper, he must have felt that inescapable chill of déjà vu running through his spine: the “certain Mendel” had certainly preempted de Vries by more than three decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We do not have fusion reactors yet, but they are confidently expected in the new few decades. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Over the next few decades, most of the boomtowns, including Gray Horse, began to die off. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z People have speculated on how to make crop soil out of Martian dirt for decades. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cahokians' solution to this problem was discovered mainly by Woods, the University of Kansas archaeologist and geographer, who has spent two decades excavating Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The city looked like it had been abandoned for decades. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z For the first five decades of his life, there was nothing remarkable about Washington Duke. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The mound, a marvel of solidity for a decade, was uprooted whole and began to shudder along in one murderous mass. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In constant dollars, the Park Service budget today is $200 million a year less than it was a decade ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z For decades, Chinese immigrants and people of Chinese descent had faced severe discrimination, so few worked in federal jobs or moved in government circles. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Within the next two decades or so, most of his educated contemporaries gradually came to the same conclusion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Oh, he does this all the time. I don’t let it get to me. I went without an Apprentice for decades. I wouldn’t have chosen him if he wasn’t worth it.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Over the past several decades, educators, world leaders, and theorists have produced a slurry of manifestos, visions and statements on what education should look like in the 21st century. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z For a decade after graduating from college he probed his soul for signs of a divine calling while earning his keep as a country schoolteacher and then apprentice lawyer. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Because of the economic earthquakes of the last few decades, a small but growing number of people have shot to the top. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And as Courtney Cooper’s best friend of over a decade, I can see in the set of his jaw and his slightly narrowed eyes—it bothers him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z This depended on their confidence in the reliability of measurements taken decades apart; others were quick to dismiss such findings as the result of defective technique. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Its windows were bolted shut and covered with wire and dirt, its gray carpet bunched in ripples from decades of foot traffic. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Fifty years after the decade had ended, the movies, music, games, and fashions of the 1980s were all the rage once again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If permitted to define a decade somewhat loosely, then the next decade was the most crucial and consequential in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Two sleeper agents from communist Czechoslovakia had been living for nearly a decade in the United States, posing as defectors and staunch anticommunists. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “For decades I’ve heard old coots like you talk about carrying water for elephants and I’m telling you now, it never happened.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it’s going away?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The Times set out to create a financial portrait of the very richest Americans, how their incomes have changed over the decades, and how the tax cuts will affect them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Like an architectural historian obsessed with only one building, Lewis had been studying the construction of fruit flies for nearly two decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I trusted him, Laia. He’s led the Resistance for a decade. His vision, his dedication—those are the only things that kept us together.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Over the last two decades, genetic technologies have advanced so rapidly that we can decipher how several of these genes operate in time and space to enable these complex functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Several decades after the march, his photographs came out in a book titled Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For whatever reason, the immediate goal had been accomplished: after decades of struggle, black students had finally gained a toehold in the most cherished white institutions of power and prestige. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Someone, meanwhile, had dug up my senior thesis from Princeton, written more than two decades earlier—a survey that looked at how African American alumni felt about race and identity after being at Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Moreover, they considered that they had already demonstrated patience and forbearance in the face of decades of neglect and outright hostility on the part of the white town leaders. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A kitten, dead for decades, showed its teeth and clawed the glass. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And now I am here, decades older than fourteen. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If Newton had never lived, scientific progress might have been held back by a few decades. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’m grateful for having just had my best Thanksgiving in a decade.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z For nearly a decade after, she and Mama had worked every single day to pay down those debts, and they’d come so close. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Under the imperatives of that decade, Chapter Eleven had become a lacto-vegetarian, a Transcendental Meditation student, a chewer of peyote buttons. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Even so, it is unlikely that a large cat could survive in sufficient numbers to breed not just in one area but evidently all over New England and escape notice for nine decades. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Volk had spent a decade searching for Ice Age humans in New Jersey. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the early decades of the twentieth century, the streetcar traveled up and down the Black Belt throughout the day, picking up passengers along the way, setting them down again at their destinations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were parts of Terryl’s journey the decade prior to the crash that showed how haunted she remained by her youth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Almost certainly some other European would have come along within a few decades and sailed west to the New World. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What in the world do you say to a mother you haven’t seen in almost a decade? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This is merely another way of saying what we have known for decades: the development of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems will, sooner or later, lead to global disaster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheet music, surely also the ill-gotten spoils of the Château des Bourreaux—a lot of popular songs from the last decade and some pieces by French composers, scored for flute and piano. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Over the course of the next four decades, the national debate over slavery and its expansion into the West was often framed as an argument over the intent of the founders. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But Balekin shows his decades of experience, wrenching the sword from Cardan’s hands and knocking him to the ground with the crossbar. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This weak link is made even weaker by glancing back to a recent decade, the 1960s, when the economy went on a wild growth spurt—as did violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I knew of men who spent a decade or more on Robben Island without a single visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although less given to hyperbole than Washington, Du Bois saw Durham in essentially the same positive light after visiting there less than a decade later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade, I look for Mac. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I drove around to the back and parked the minivan next to a rusted Dumpster that hadn’t encountered a garbage truck in decades. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Why not spend a decade or so exploiting nature’s gifts before building an expensive machine to generate the same energies? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For nearly a decade, she and my father held a fragile truce between them, with Jagu living under her care, eating meals in her room and wearing clothes that she stitched for him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Within the decade, Oppenheimer’s theoretical teachings and Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron would transform Berkeley into very much Caltech’s superior—no longer a desert but the preeminent center of nuclear physics in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But when they did, their grimaces of pain turned suddenly to broad white smiles, smiles that decades later would flicker across old newsreels, illuminating the greatest moment of their lives. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had coined a phrase that jockeys would use for decades. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When my mom started working, she still lived with my grandmother in Soweto, the township where the government had relocated my family decades before. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Of course they were confused; the last snow had been decades ago. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It looked like it hadn’t been inhabited in decades. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Fears of communism had smoldered for much of the decade; Elizabeth Bentley's testimony was the fuel that this fire needed to explode. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Seven decades later, when Pizarro held his victory celebration in Qosqo, it was equal in grandeur to any city in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The introduction of printing happened over a period of decades and for a long time affected only a relatively small part of the planet. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact that I’ve lived almost seven decades since then is irrelevant. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The dismal name came from the bleak opportunities workers faced in the region, where iron, coal, and steel companies had busted unions for two decades. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The words were lost deep in his skin, obscured by decades of ink. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Daoud acted like he was one of the family, but he was just a guy my brother had brought home when they'd met in fifth grade, a decade ago. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Camila and Mya have visited me here a million times in the past decade, and they still can’t get from the lobby to my room without asking every person in the building for directions. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In fact, mobility, which once buoyed the working lives of Americans as it rose in the decades after World War II, has lately flattened out or possibly even declined, many researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The front of the menu tells a lengthy story about Rosie’s, with black-and-white photos spanning the last four decades. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z In just the past decade, the time devoted to advertisements in a typical hour of network television has grown from six minutes to nine minutes, and it continues to climb every year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Waitressing is also something I’d like to avoid, because I remember it leaving me bone-tired when I was eighteen, and I’m decades of varicosities and back pain beyond that now. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No one with any sense would turn his back on that, especially after nearly a decade and a half of training. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Most pollsters agree that people who identify themselves as white evangelical Christians make up about a quarter of the population, just as they have for decades. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Not just in the immediate press cycle, but for decades to come. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My skirt looks old, like it’s from a whole other decade. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z This national commemoration, three decades after his lifetime, pays tribute to his immeasurable contributions on behalf of one’s innate right to self-preservation and human dignity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Galileo had been an experimental scientist for some time, a decade or so—in fact, since he had read William Gilbert’s On the Magnet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To raise more money, Bennett has followed a grapevine of affluent evangelicals around the country, winding up even in places where evangelicals would have been a rarity just a few decades ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Davenport’s racist and antisemitic theories then became part of the Army War College course for nearly two decades. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And in speaking on these topics from the White House, I’d be offering an implicit challenge to the behemoth corporations in the food and beverage industry and the way they’d been doing business for decades. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For sentences that have been repeated verbatim in questionnaires over the decades, the rate of acceptance has increased over time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The Klan responded with random bombings for almost two decades. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As late as 1890, New York State paid bounties on 107 mountain lions, but within a decade they were virtually all gone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Cootie had been the Lacks Town barber for decades. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In barely a decade membership grew to four hundred–still all gentlemen, of course–and the Geological was threatening to eclipse the Royal as the premier scientific society in the country. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Armed with real numbers, Galton could now find the elusive “law of heredity” that he had hunted so ardently for decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Moss hoisted his bike up on his right shoulder and ascended the stairs, glancing at the posters for concerts and plays from decades past in San Francisco. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I knew the director of Dracula, Tod Browning, was talented, because people have been talking about his work for decades now. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And why would Hazel think Leo was Sammy, all these decades later? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But over the decade following the riot, gangs and organized crime continued to operate unchecked by the mayor, angering enough citizens that Thompson was voted out in 1931, never to hold office again. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Brother Ugo’s face was wrong—it had withered as though a whole decade had passed since they’d last seen each other. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z My grandfather had died a decade earlier in 1936—he had been murdered following a dispute over mica mines—leaving my grandmother to raise five young boys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I remembered how wide-eyed I’d been on my first trip there decades earlier with Czerny, my mentor from Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For the nearly two decades that he had lived in America, Dasch worked mostly as a waiter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Several stories said he was the most promising teen running back they’d seen in decades. That he had a shot at going pro.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There had been larger marches in the past decade, but none of them matched in tone, the gravitas of this slow cortege through the streets of Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Because of my nature, I may have to endure old age for decades longer than regular human beings. The humiliating finale to the mortal condition.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In only a few decades, sweeping global changes have begun to move in precisely the directions needed for human survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sixty-four, but aside from his gray curls, he seemed decades younger, with smooth hazelnut-brown skin and youthful green eyes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They could search for decades and never find him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Conflict continued over the next decade, with Jamestown residents frequently targeting Indigenous civilians. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They now owe about $750 billion in revolving debt, according to the Federal Reserve, a sixfold increase from two decades ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Even if she didn’t have to limit herself to one suitcase full, it would take her decades to collect this many books, let alone read them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For decades, the Princeton study was cited as evidence that the Halloween broadcast caused mass hysteria. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z As the youngest of the four, she had had the least chance to bond to the Island before our abrupt exile almost a decade before. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Dorothy had never been one to linger over the past; the decade waiting in the wings promised to be one of the most interesting ever witnessed at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The team had an incredible array of talent, the devout boosters whispered, the best of any Permian team in a decade. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I had lived there for almost two decades and while it was never a home — my home was in Johannesburg — it had become a place where I felt comfortable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Federal Emergency Management Agency had been its own freestanding agency for decades, but after 9/11 had been folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She came looking for him here a decade ago. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades, baseball fans in Seattle had to choose an eastern team to root for if they wanted a stake in the big leagues. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This fight was to continue across several decades. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The DeSoto, strictly an island car for more than a decade, had been purchased by Ishmael’s father fifteen years before, a four-speed with a semiautomatic transmission, hypoid rear axle, and column shift. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Bouguer and La Condamine thus had spent nearly a decade working toward a result they didn’t wish to find only to learn now that they weren’t even the first to find it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For a decade or so, Marsh and Cope’s mutual dislike primarily took the form of quiet sniping, but in 1877 it erupted into grandiose dimensions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Once a cell has lost its normal respiration it cannot regain it — not in a year, not in a decade or in many decades. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the decade that followed, an edgy peace between labor and management settled on our town, broken only by intermittent strikes, usually quickly settled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She was scarcely half a head taller than Yishan, but she ordered servants about as if she had been at the palace for decades. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Instead, he played the race card for his own political gain, setting back by years, if not decades, black aspirations for equality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For a surprisingly long time—the better part of a decade—townsfolk kept their anger to themselves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z That would have been quite enough to keep him busy in his spare time for a decade or more. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the following decades this new understanding of space and time was to revolutionize our view of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She reads through the resume, learns exactly where he’s been and what he’s done for the past decade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “She and Nico were stuck there for decades. They were born before the oath was made.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z For one thing, membership had decreased substantially in the past decade. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The first time she lived in Flushing was decades ago, after leaving London, when she had first settled in America with her husband and two daughters. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Tony had now spent over a decade dealing drugs and knew how much money could be made in the game. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Anything beyond tomorrow feels like the next decade. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I passed them to Mother and she dialed some second cousins who promised to come collect us almost immediately, even though Mother had not spoken with them in nearly a decade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For an hour he pegged over ground that was so springy with decades of fallen pine needles, it seemed to lift him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It felt surreal, to see the man standing not ten yards away from him, after having hero-worshipped him from afar for nearly a decade, after having laughed at every YouTube joke. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In barely a decade, the War on Drugs went from being a political slogan to an actual war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was meeting men and women whom I would know for decades to come, who were to form the first sustained relationships in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers sailed in their imagination years and decades into the future. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As the judge spoke about Mr. Caston's decades in prison, the courtroom, for the first time in my multiple trips there, became completely silent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Every week we interviewed people who had lived in the same house for decades only to find that it was now declared a white area and they had to leave without any recompense at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand that Southern Sudan had been a dangerous place for decades. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1935, that number drops by almost six hundred thousand, and then, within a decade and a half, the number is back over three million again. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z For years the Sankaty Head Golf Club had a waiting list that seemed to extend for decades. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There is nothing unfamiliar about this; indeed, we’ve been engaged in a coordinated national effort for over two decades, through the established processes of the National Institutes of Health. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I missed them a great deal during those days, long before I had any inkling that I would spend decades apart from them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But did you know that Irukandji syndrome was reported in Florida almost a decade ago? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions and counterrevolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Eugenia helped run a beauty supply store farther down in East Oakland, out past Fruitvale, and she’d been there for over a decade, they learned. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in a 50-by-125-mile area in southeastern Kansas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Peterson became something of a mentor to Fischer and climbed with him intermittently over the next two decades. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Stanton felt that if women did not win the right to vote at this time, it could be decades before they would have another chance. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I was there about two decades and some blacks became supervisors. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, after decades in America, now that she's old, Ranee has become friends with a young man who lives in the apartment next to hers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In retrospect, that statement seems prescient, but it merely reflected the mood already widespread among the young in Durham’s black community as America stood poised on the cusp of a new and turbulent decade. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Also almost at once, the Ethyl Corporation embarked on a policy of calm but unyielding denial that would serve it well for decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1867, nearly a decade after the publication of Origin, he began to complete a new manuscript, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in which he would fully explicate this view of inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After decades of falling for such nonsense, the American people will decide they've had enough pointless anxiety. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z For close to a decade I’d dressed in a uniform every day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For many, however, warfare was a significant part of life in the decades leading up to the war for independence from Britain. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Who really deserved the patent for a discovery that might be based on the work of innumerable scientists over years or decades? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They chopped it down two decades ago when the tree got sick, but according to old Batavia lore, when the leaves were green and full, the elm looked exactly like Abraham Lincoln’s profile. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z A particularly poignant loss occurred in the summer of 1701, when the leaders of forty native nations convened in Montreal to negotiate an end to decades of war among themselves and the French. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From time to time in the decade since, he has thought about giving it another try. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Several decades of mental health have not made schizophrenia go away, nor has it been established that a community mental-health center can yet maintain the mental health of a community. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Within about two decades following their introduction to the northern end of New Zealand, muskets and potatoes had spread 900 miles to the southern end of New Zealand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, two researchers, working independently, were making some startling findings by drawing on a curious fact of Earth history that had been discovered several decades earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The midwife looked as though she hadn’t given a thought to her appearance in a decade, and the way she carried herself made you feel foolish for having noticed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the first few decades after the Union Stock Yard opened, white packinghouse workers were not focused on blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Though I was from Johannesburg, Cape Town had been my home for nearly three decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For well over a decade, his spies had been infiltrating the United States, burrowing their way into private companies, schools, laboratories, and even government offices. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Minya was going to force a decade’s worth of the city’s dead to fight and kill their own kith and kin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Though it would not be easy, and would take the remainder of the decade to accomplish, that is pretty much what happened. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She had appeared before that group and spoken on behalf of female suffrage for decades. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Secretly, I dreamed of ascending Everest myself one day; for more than a decade it remained a burning ambition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t work the Benefit this year, first time in a decade. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, she wrote a long letter to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Amaka broke into song at the end of each decade, uplifting Igbo songs that made Aunty Ifeoma sing in echoes, like an opera singer drawing the words from the pit of her stomach. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Sown wheat yields a crop within a few months; a planted almond grows into a nut-bearing tree in three or four years; but a planted acorn may not become productive for a decade or more. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then there is the good old AT, still quietly ticking along after six decades, unassuming, splendid, faithful to its founding principles, sweetly unaware that the world has quite moved on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But tonight, as we've agreed, we're staging a coup on the same Avenida where a decade ago the dictator was cornered and wounded on his way to a tryst with his mistress. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It had taken the angels a long time to get rid of that kind of dangerous in Lucille; it was a fight that had started decades before even Bitter was born. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Men of business fought against the use of mindspeech when it first was found to be a teachable skill; they outlawed it for decades.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Morrow had begun it by reading a brief statement, saying that he hadn’t seen or spoken to Halliday in over a decade. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Root didn’t have the energy to discipline him, but he made a mental note: when this is over, dock Foaly’s pay for a few decades. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Plus, unlike plants and mice, it takes us decades to produce enough offspring to give scientists much meaningful data. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Kaede remembered that the King’s first wife had died more than a decade ago, but he had not remarried until last year, when he chose a much younger bride. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Only a few decades later, the astronomer Sir William Herschel confirmed this idea by painstakingly cataloging the positions and distances of vast numbers of stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosellini’s “experiment” stretched on for more than a decade, but eventually he felt the question that inspired it had been answered. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve kept this secret for so long—a decade, more than a third of my life. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past decade, science fiction had become popular in radio, comics, and film. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z By the second decade of the twentieth century, black America had come to a fork in the road and had to choose: accommodation to white supremacy or unyielding opposition to it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, a funeral service was held in the modest redbrick Ebenezer Baptist Church where his father had presided for three decades, and in which young “M. L.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He thought nothing of waiting a decade or two after its discovery to publish the inverse square law. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite all the knowledge gained by scientists in the last few decades, this emotional realm remains much harder to reach. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If I take the lungs, I will outlive him by close to a decade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Calder’s dad said he remembered hearing that Mrs. Sharpe’s husband had been murdered in Europe many decades ago, and that he had been doing research on Vermeer at the time of his death. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z In the few short decades since King’s death, a new regime of racially disparate mass incarceration has emerged in Chicago and become the primary mechanism for racial oppression and the denial of equal opportunity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For a decade he and his Greek soldiers have been battling their way across the known world, defeating even the mighty Persians, rulers of Asia. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Hale, who had an owlish face, stiff black hair, and small, alert eyes set in shaded hollows, had settled on the reservation nearly two decades earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While blacks did win the right to vote when the Republican Party came to power three years later, and even served in various offices, the interregnum lasted less than a decade. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Her parents had been collecting DVDs for decades. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The electron that scientists see in the laboratory—the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades—is an impostor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For almost a decade, I’d been privileged to move through it, experiencing its bracing contradictions and bitter conflicts, its pain and persistent idealism, and above all else its resilience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Over the previous three decades, rates of childhood obesity had tripled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Moreover, despite the rising global tensions with the USSR, the United States was enjoying one of the most prosperous decades in its history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Right you are, Sunny Brook. Here we go: What king defeated the Revolt of the Earls in 1075 and then, a decade later, ordered the composing of the Domesday, or doomsday, Book?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z My very ability to work tirelessly hour after hour is a product of decades of better-than-average medical care, a high-protein diet, and workouts in gyms that charge $400 or $500 a year. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades the instructions have been missing; each year they have to figure out the order in which the branches must be inserted, the longest ones at the bottom, the smallest at the top. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He hugged us both again, smoothed the back of our necks, and asked us not to forget to say the full fifteen decades of the rosary during the drive. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z For more than a decade following Penkovsky's arrest, Moscow had been a virtual no-go zone for CIA operations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Monday used to say I was born in the wrong decade. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But for the past decade persistent reports of bird losses, especially among pheasants, ducks, and blackbirds, have come from the rice-growing counties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some of us may have lost our “mother tongue,” as my nanni used to call it, but the custom of tameez—respect—for elders stays strong, despite decades of assimilation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z What’s the difference between three weeks or three years or even three decades of mushy peas, tapioca, and Depends undergarments? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Over the recent decades, a vast and diverse flock of parenting experts has arisen. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Over the last few decades, we have invented countless time-saving devices that are supposed to make life more relaxed—washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru watched, stuck somewhere between awe and horror, as the stone elephant that had been standing in the museum for decades suddenly sank to the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The Agency was still smaller than its Russian counterpart, and its agents had to train hard to learn the techniques of spycraft—which Soviet operatives had been mastering for decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even without the aid of a major fire, the same thing would happen to all other cities, though the process would be a gradual one, taking several decades. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Nephew,” he said with an artful swish of his robes, one that had taken him over a decade to perfect. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Insulin had only been discovered about a decade before Woolf’s diagnosis. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the decades, the Banyamulenge got caught up in various conflicts and civil wars, but no matter what, they were always seen as outsiders, not truly Congolese. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Queried at long distance by Sproul, the loyal Swann declared that his protege was destined to become one of the world’s ten leading physicists before the end of the decade. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet as we entered the new decade my hopes for that South Africa rose once again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was described three decades after his death as having had “so much taste and talent that his mind bordered on genius.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Only a few horses clopped down the city’s streets, and they would be gone before the decade was out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t have known it then, but these questions would come to dominate the next decade of our lives, pulsing like a drumbeat behind almost everything we did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She kept up with old friends, and she also made plenty of new ones, some decades younger than she was. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For the first time in decades, there was nothing to do. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Over the next decade, he built a successful career and started his own company based in New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He worries about how long it will last, though, mindful of what happened to his father, Dwight, a decade ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Now, about one of every two Americans uses a cellphone; in 2004, there were 176 million subscribers, almost eight times the number a decade earlier, according to the market research firm IDC. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After nearly a decade of prodding by Douglas Moore and others, King was at last prepared to endorse a national nonviolent direct-action campaign aimed at ending Jim Crow. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But that’s what the guerrillas had been trying to do for decades and I saw no progress. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel’s initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The idea was that within a decade, the sewers would stop dumping into the river every time it rained. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z "Just give India a few decades to catch up," I argue. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But she remained a force in the community until her death more than three decades later. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The pain of my own adjustment from Garland was decades in the past. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A whole decade plus a year of being alive on Planet Earth! Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Film by film, Georges’ world was projected on screen for the first time in over a decade. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Wes’s aunt Nicey has been working for the State of Maryland doing home visits for the elderly, sick, and shut-in for a decade. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In 2012, the United States saw the first decline in its prison population in decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Only you could get into trouble in a town this small. You would have devastated their crime rate statistics for a decade, you know.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Across the South as a whole, a mere 1 percent of black school children were attending school with whites in 1964—a full decade after Brown was decided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Over the decades, the balloons had ripped and filled with sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If we became free of disease, we would make a much better run of it for the last decade or so, but might still terminate on about the same schedule as now. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The pastor said the church had been built by an Arabian Order of Shriners decades before Friendship Baptist made it its spiritual home. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He misses the simplicity of the intimacy they had a decade earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was at Langley where the progress of the last two decades was most evident. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that many times, but it seems now like a decade, an era; I can remember what I wore, each blouse, each scarf. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t lived there in close to a decade, but I recognized my parents’ address when I saw it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After decades of decline, black infant mortality began to soar in the 1980s, as did the rate of low-birthweight babies and parent abandonment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A decade earlier in the underground prison, Shin’s aging cellmate had dared to talk about food outside the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A couple of decades ago, his choices might have been the military or the Simplot plant or, if he were lucky, a trade or vocational school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And trends in the Ivy League today could shape the culture for decades to come, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade, over half a million black voters in Chicago went to the polls, proving that they had the collective power to shape political outcomes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The duty of performing an execution, which hadn’t occurred in the county for a decade, fell to the sheriff. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Set the family name back by a decade.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In this seminal case on texting and driving, the hearing examined how decades’ worth of attention science might be applied to the law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Southside had separated from my grandmother decades earlier, when my mother was in her teens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The truck fell behind them, the lights grew smaller, then disappeared forever in the middle of the third decade of the rosary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was that my generation was born into a decade of heightened conflict. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The selective breeding of the strongest, smartest, “fittest” humans—unnatural selection—Galton imagined, could achieve over just a few decades what nature had been attempting for eons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He pulled a rosary from the pocket of his fatigues and began to say the first decade of the rosary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was far less so four decades ago. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The ACD organization chart was a snapshot of two decades of change at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The same sparse furnishings, all built by hand just like the house, had occupied the space for decades. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Snub-nosed, Precious, and Refreshingly Normal, which is the line Davina’s been using two or three hundred times a day for half a decade now. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade, Father Olufemi was going to select warriors to go into the Greater Jungle in search of the Shetani. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Although the ANC had called for talks with the government for decades, we had never been confronted with the actual prospect of such talks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z For decades afterward, Washington crewmembers were feted at the end of each rowing year with a Loyal Shoudy banquet, where each found a purple tie waiting at his plate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It had taken a decade since he first saw her spidery handwritten list, but now it was a fact. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Timing himself precisely, Bull quit running after he had said three decades. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad vowed to make a special sign to hang outside the restaurant that would say we were celebrating almost two decades and counting. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We may improve some school districts, prolong affirmative action for another decade or two, or force some police departments to condemn racial profiling, but we will not put a dent in the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For over two decades, Rondon, now forty-eight and the commander of Brazil’s Telegraphic Commission, explored and mapped the “wild, western wilderness of Brazil.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Yet in this brief flash of six decades, the gene had transformed from an abstract concept in a botanical experiment to a powerful instrument of social control. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They couldn’t sue over the cells being taken in the first place for several reasons, including the fact that the statute of limitations passed decades ago. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Bill Clinton traded in a hand of low cards with the help of a college education and a Rhodes scholarship and emerged decades later with four face cards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z If its new position is somewhere in the shaded region of the figure, we may have only another few decades until Doomsday. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After decades of neglect, I find myself thinking about departed great- aunts and -uncles, long-lost grandfathers, unknown fifth cousins, or, in the case of an inbred family like mine, all those things in one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As a new decade dawned in the Cold War, the struggle between America and Russia was quickly spreading around the globe—and into the skies above. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it was thought for many decades outside Italy that Silbermann had actually invented the piano, such was the oblivion into which Cristofori’s effort had fallen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z At current rates of change, within the next decade the few remaining bands of hunter-gatherers will abandon their ways, disintegrate, or die out, thereby ending our millions of years of commitment to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While Hollywood garnered most of the headlines, defense spending remained the focus of the local economy for the next two decades, providing about one-third of its jobs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z I’m sure the doctors wanted to keep him in the hospital, but we didn’t have insurance, and the bill was already so large that Shawn would be making payments a decade later. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For decades the two of them owned a pawn shop, where Charity would handle the customers—she was always the cool-tempered one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Almost five decades later, I still have my gold cap. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her instinct in the decades since the war has been to hide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Even though the village mine has been closed for decades, the scent is still there. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z As it happened, the death of Alexander unleashed a pack of contenders who spent the next several decades fighting over his legacy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z With a few significant exceptions, what has been occurring for decades, even for a century or more, has not been a dialogue on race, but any number of simultaneous monologues on the subject. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Of course, provided we survived whatever tribulations we were about to face, I could always go and find my parents in a few decades, once they were born—but what would be the point? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A few years or decades of tranquility may see grasses replaced by shrubs and trees which are in turn flattened by a violent thunderstorm, permit ting the grass to thrive again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Once a decade I get this overpowering urge to pay. In fact, from now on I’m gonna insist on squaring my tab—” “Screw you.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The error will be perpetuated for decades in books and even a movie. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She gave me the ruthless instinct and speed that make me the best student Blackcliff has seen in two decades. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A survivor of the brutal pogroms that had spread across Russia over a decade ago, Motke had seen the faces of the dead and broken everywhere he looked—his wife, his friends, his neighbors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Some of the older ones canted crazily, like crooked teeth, the names and dates eroded from decades of sun, wind, and snow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There is no firm in the world that has made more money, lawyer for lawyer, over the past two decades. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z By contrast, no wild maize ancestor has ever been found, despite decades of search. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the decades to come, this revolutionary science would extend its domain from simple organisms to complex ones. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was a surprise baby, born two decades after his brothers, when the Janssens were already stooped and gray. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z For decades those feelings were held in check by a common enemy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Cliff was in his seventies and still minding the tobacco barn behind the farmhouse his father had built decades earlier, checking the furnaces several times a day to make sure they stayed at 120 degrees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At best, you will delay him—a few decades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She looked like she’d been stuck in a cool, dark mausoleum for decades, slowly withering into a desiccated husk. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Bodega had attended that funeral, decades back, when he was a teenager and death was too far away to scare him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Several decades later, borrowing from this technology, Henry Ford credited the meatpackers for the idea that led to the invention of the automobile assembly line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Winter hasn’t achieved in thirty centuries what Terra once achieved in thirty decades. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The lifetime of a human being is measured in decades; the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Society of the Evening Star is an arcane organization that we all hoped had gone extinct decades ago,” Maddox explained. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z These data, from the last few decades before the telescope was invented, were the most accurate that had yet been obtained. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sahagun is known as the first American anthropologist, for he labored for decades to understand the Indians he sought to convert. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ecology was a sober, industrious science here long ago, decades before the rest of us discovered the term. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you spend years developing the perfect organizational system, which even has a convenient place for your historical-fictional-travelogue-memoir. You and the scrivs spend decades slowly identifying, sorting and reordering tens of thousands of books.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Adams, of course, had been trying to do just that for over a decade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There hadn’t been a sky burial in decades, not since it was outlawed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Neylan had been a regent for nearly a decade when the Harvard offer piqued his curiosity and brought him to the door of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Irish and Germans arrived in the mid-nineteenth century, Poles and Lithuanians a few decades later. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “So I became the Director,” Tanin continued, “tasked with recovering the Book and making up for a betrayal that set us back decades.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z So they were stuck without much of an option aside from Wanda quitting the job she’d had for over a decade and uprooting themselves from the neighborhood where they’d built up a network. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In recent decades the Replacement Theory has been the common wisdom in the field. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Decade by decade, she watched Rosa Parks’s fame grow as the person who had ignited the movement by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z And Kaan is just one of the score of Maya settlements that in the last few decades have been investigated for the first time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Latin hasn’t been taught at Truman for nearly two decades, but he even pulls that off. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She was fifty, but seemed both a decade older and younger at the same time. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As Sonny told me the news of Deborah’s death, I sat staring at a framed picture of her that’s been on my desk for nearly a decade. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “For decades,” narrated the ceiling voice, “public libraries have proudly served America’s newest citizens—the immigrants who flock to these shores yearning for the freedom to build their own American dreams.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z For most workers, the only time in the last three decades when the rise in hourly pay beat inflation was during the speculative bubble of the 1990s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z With her brown curls strewn wildly about her face, instead of tightly up in a bun the way they’d been all week, Mrs. Asher somehow looked a decade older. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The combined campaign failed, but Cyrene was not returned to Alexandria’s full control for decades. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In the winter of 1937, America was in the seventh year of the most catastrophic decade in its history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with nearly six decades between the two Byrds, Clayton and Cool Papa had what Cool Papa called “harmony.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Another reason that the wealthiest will fare much better is that the tax cuts over the past decade have sharply lowered rates on income from investments. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He stopped at the end of the first decade so Mama could continue with the next set of ten Hail Marys. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z District 12 hasn't had a volunteer in decades and the protocol has become rusty. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It had been two decades since I had seen him, and that meeting had been on another continent and under vastly different circumstances. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z As in Rwanda, a Tutsi minority ruled over a Hutu majority for decades. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The postwar decade had begun with Sir Arthur Eddington’s spectacular confirmation of Einstein’s theory of relativity at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society in November 1919. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I remember the day a decade ago when I came alone to go to the market for my boots. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course they were growing and surviving decades after her death, of course they floated through the air, and of course they’d led to cures for diseases and been launched into space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But these escapades had occurred years earlier, in some cases decades earlier, when I was in my twenties and thirties. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the past decade, the United States government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented that some of these North Koreans are involved in criminal enterprises that funnel hard currency to Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The most important conclusion of the most important biochemical paper of the decade was buried, like a polite cough, under a mound of dense text. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To him this chance to see South Africa less than a decade after the end of apartheid was the perfect preparation for a real understanding of the Rhodes experience and legacy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z If these dreams of theirs would take off, El Barrio would burn like a roman candle, bright and proud for decades. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z And it would be decades before anyone thought to ask whether informed consent should apply in cases like Henrietta’s, where scientists conduct research on tissues no longer attached to a person’s body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Adnan had done well since emigrating over a decade earlier; he owned and managed four Subway franchises in New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And now, having waged this war for decades, we claim some blacks “support” mass incarceration, as though they would rather have their young men warehoused in prison than going off to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A list of things she would scan Izzy for over the next decade: Did Izzy simply not notice things, or was she going blind? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Other people spoke fondly and knowingly of books they had read decades before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s the only way he could have survived at Truman, particularly for four decades. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We had been engaged in the armed struggle for more than two decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early days of June 1953, when Eunice Smith drove over to Katherine’s house to pick her up for work, the two women started a routine that would persist for the next three decades. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The thing had frayed in the wash, so the silvery gray now just looked gray, a total noncolor, like something she’d washed and worn for a decade. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A man of few words, Mendel was even more concise in his writing: he had distilled nearly a decade’s work into forty-four spectacularly dreary pages. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There were so many people buried in the Lacks cemetery now, he said, they’d run out of room decades ago and started piling graves on top of each other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My eyes scan this space that suddenly feels like it’s not my own, not the place I’ve spent every night for over a decade. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The weight of years, decades, centuries of hate and violence—it all gathered in the air and pressed down on my shoulders. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was the first time he’d been seen by the public in almost two decades. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, his prediction turned out to be off by nearly three decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For dinner she is buttoned into a starchy dress from some bygone decade. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If this is the way it is, some of us will continue to wear out and come unhinged in the sixth decade, and some much later, depending on genetic timetables. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z More than two decades earlier—when I was just three years old—Rogers had gone through those same White Pages. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was 1979—a new year, a new decade, almost, but school was still just school. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z September 11 hadn't happened yet, and we were decades away from living in Trump's America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I realized the old man and the boy were the same person—it was all in the eyes, the vitality undiminished despite the many decades. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Refugees known as "boat people" continued to leave Vietnam for more than a decade after the Communist takeover, particularly during the late '70s. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The boat trip just ended but might as well have been decades in the past. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Isobel racks her brain for the last time she felt under the weather and she can only come up with a head cold she had a decade ago, the winter before she met Marco. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In contrast, the information in our books is at most thousands of years old, and that in our brains is only decades old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, the outspoken leader of the African-American community for several decades, had died only months before the Atlanta speech, leaving a vacuum that the ambitious Washington quickly filled. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A decade later Cieza de Leon saw the battleground and from the wreckage and unburied remains thought the dead could have numbered sixteen thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We were decades, still, from a time when a simple Google search would bring up a head-spinning array of charts, statistics, and medical explainers that either gave or took away hope. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Every decade has had its landmark moments in HeLa research, and the connection between HPV and cervical cancer was only one of several in the eighties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It had taken nearly three decades for Morgan and his students to collect about fifty fly mutants in New York. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Over the next decade, Hubble tackled two of the most fundamental questions of the universe: how old is it, and how big? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Across the deadline, in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, the Black Belt community was growing. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Someday antibiotics will revolutionize treatment of this illness, but that is still decades away. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Over the last decade the scholarly enterprise has been transformed by the internet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Its blade was dark, inelegant; the textured skin that covered the hilt was nearly black, as though many hands had held it over the decades. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The violent-crime rate among black youths, in fact, has dropped by 60 percent in the past two decades, and the homicide rate has dropped by 82 percent. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Neither of them relished the idea of telling elderly, kindhearted Gallup that her decades of effort were pointless. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For black Americans, the four decades between World War II and the crack boom had been marked by steady and often dramatic improvement. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z During the first two decades after the war for independence from Britain, large numbers of first- and second-generation Ulster Scots moved westward into the Ohio Valley, western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some entomologists believe that the ant’s food habits have changed as it has become more abundant, so that observations made several decades ago have little value now. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And by the last decade of the nineteenth century, American doctors embraced germ theory and Lister's advice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Because these transmissions were broadcast a few decades ago, they are only a few tens of light-years away from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As one decade passed into another, I put my World War II experiences even further behind me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z All of them were senior citizens now, their hair graying and shoulders curving, a sign of the decades and maybe also the weight they’d carried for future generations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Suicide was not uncommon in the camp,” Kang Chol-hwan wrote in his memoir about the decade he spent inside Camp 15. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In particular, numerous white American psychologists have been trying for decades to demonstrate that black Americans of African origins are innately less intelligent than white Americans of European origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His was the first of a flood of musical responses to the two legends in ensuing decades. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the coming decades, these issues would only become more pressing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now, decades later, I was starting to understand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was an epiphany: scientists had been trying for decades to grow immortal cell lines using normal cells instead of malignant ones, but it had never worked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t mean to start a breakaway church, but within a few decades swathes of Europe had switched to one form of Protestantism or another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He’s the only player who uses those nasty showers, which haven’t been cleaned for decades. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily for you, Redwood Farm Supply has invested decades of research in developing feed that meets your birds’ needs perfectly; you must choose the correct type to purchase. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z In this case they took decades to rectify. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the issue raised its head again and again over the next several decades. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It has been years since I jumped off a building in my Abnegation uniform; it has been decades. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z For almost a decade the image of the crying Indian appeared around the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But over the past few decades, the classical music world has undergone a revolution. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The man identified himself as Archie, and as the two settled into a more peaceful conversation, he revealed to Bloom that he had spent a decade in London serving as a rich man’s bodyguard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His years at Camp Jupiter seemed made up, like a movie he’d acted in decades before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was in Sweden, and they’d been perfecting this thing for half a decade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z "He won more often than the others. I think that's how he sent me here. A couple decades of winning at small-stakes poker." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z This was precisely the neutral foreign policy that both Washington and Adams had been urging for a decade and that Jefferson had condemned as a betrayal of the spirit of ’76. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This would have been the advice offered in women’s magazines, of a decade ago: wait it out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z These days people roughly know within a decade or two. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Volpe had joined Truman’s faculty at age twenty-one, and the night Cameron Mackintosh was to arrive was three decades into his career. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I once overheard someone saying it's the most recognizable tag to come along in a decade. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The prices of clothing, for example, have barely risen in the last decade, while department store prices in general fell 10 percent from 1994 to 2004, the federal government says. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As the decade wore on and they delved more deeply into the intricacies of atomic structure, their picture of the natural world grew only murkier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the decade after 1927, sixty-six papers were published in scientific journals based on research carried out at Tower House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the decade following the first women's rights convention, other meetings were held throughout the North and West. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z More than seven decades have passed since the bloodiest war in history ended. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A record his brother bought at a shop on the rue Sainte-Marguerite four decades ago for fifty-five centimes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The bosses maintained the upper hand by staying united, decade after decade. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Actually, that statement was mostly true. I didn’t speak with Jim for the last decade of his life. Not until just a few weeks before he died.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Davis said that he had dreamed of doing something like this for more than a decade. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Things then unravelled, like a film of the events of the previous two decades being run backwards at high speed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Fischer would now be the first non-Soviet or non-Russian in more than three decades to play for the title against the reigning World Champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Although separated in age by almost four decades, the two players became relatively close and remained so for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Earth has harbored a technical civilization characterized by radio astronomy for only a few decades out of a lifetime of a few billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “She and others are about to inherit this sanctuary, a vital step toward reaching our ultimate ends. After decades of persistence, nothing can forestall me.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Many doctors testified before the Board of Regents and in the media on Southam’s behalf, saying they’d been conducting similar research for decades. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The records used to be arranged by decade, but now it’s by musical genre. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It could mean tomorrow or it could be decades away. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The basic framework for all these institutions and traditions was built in a sudden spasm of enforced inspiration and makeshift construction during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He worked for the Department of Transportation in Atlanta, Georgia, for two decades. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The tragedy in all this is particularly great because for nearly a decade, there has been strong reason to suppose that Fischer could demonstrate his supremacy convincingly if only given the opportunity to do so.... Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And now, more than a decade later, Debbie couldn’t help gloating a little. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of nonviolent offenders have been forced to spend decades in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Rosenblatt—” “That name hasn’t applied to me for decades. You can call me Rain.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z For decades, the northern and southern regions of the United States bitterly argued over slavery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Bennie had spent every year of the decade that Sierra had known her obsessed with one branch of the natural sciences or another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z For at the start and for several decades thereafter, it remained a vast and nearly vacant plot of ground. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The American economy has also grown more quickly than Europe’s in recent decades, leaving an impression of boundless opportunity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Gey and his wife, Margaret, had spent the last three decades working to grow malignant cells outside the body, hoping to use them to find cancer’s cause and cure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In America in the closing decades of the century there arose a rivalry even more spectacularly venomous, if not quite as destructive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The war’s been intense lately, and with several decades of infrastructure funding diverted to supplying the warfront, I don’t know if these buildings would hold up well in another earthquake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade would pass before the United States regained the know-how or the will to launch espionage operations on Russian soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It had taken him months of training, but now he could absorb decades of information without falling ill or losing himself in the waves of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z With every decade that had passed since she left the area, things had gotten worse. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The law and order perspective, first introduced during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement by rabid segregationists, had become nearly hegemonic two decades later. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Incredibly, Woolf’s timing was so good that he rode for more than a decade before he was beaten in a photo finish of a stakes race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Why they have to have seconds, pinutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, sentries, on and on, tick-tick, whoosh there goes two seconds, whoosh, two more. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The distance—physical and mental—that had been traversed in the last decade nearly stopped my breath, and I wondered if perhaps I had changed too much. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Skies all over the world bore witness to four decades of successful Langley research, from passenger jets to bombers, transport planes to fighter aircraft. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It coincided with an even broader American crime wave that had been building for two decades. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For decades, this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colors and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic, nonracial government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The older boys—Tony, Shawn and Tyler—had been raised in a different decade, and it was almost as if they’d had different parents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The importance of rangers to the defense and expansion of the colonies increased in the decades that followed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Shin barely knew and rarely saw He Geun, who had been out of the house for a decade and was now twenty-one. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Somebody had clear-cut the top of the mountain more than a decade ago, and the forest still hadn’t recovered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a wonderful reunion to be with old comrades whom I had not seen in decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade or so, I blush. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z West Virginia that excluding black people from jury service was unconstitutional, but juries remained all-white for decades afterward. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Times analysis also shows that over the next decade, the tax cuts Bush wants to extend indefinitely would shift the burden further from the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A new generation of agents would have to come on the scene, more than a decade later, before the United States was ready to make its next move against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Among them are the owners of the papaya orchard I visited, who have happily grown crops on their terra preta for two decades. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I ran into her perhaps a decade later. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She told me if I took a drug now, even if I didn’t have children for a decade, they would be deformed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade later, in December 1939, the acclaimed newspaper reporter Ernie Pyle stopped at La Tuna prison, near El Paso, Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Before I left Osage County to return home, I stopped to see Mary Jo Webb, a retired teacher who had spent decades investigating the suspicious death of her grandfather during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Before going into the operating room, George told his surgeons that he wanted them to take samples of his tumor, just as Dr. Wharton had done with Henrietta’s tumor decades earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The lights were out; they were in bed, side by side, as in the days how many decades ago? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z If there had ever been a time that the city needed a lift it was then, and Permian did not even make the playoffs for the first time in the entire decade. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That Soviet players had for decades been talking to one another during games with no complaints didn’t help Bobby’s cause. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Although the find was of obvious archaeological importance, the object was so big and heavy that in the intervening eight decades it had never been pulled out of the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z More than a decade later, she told a confidant that the raid “was what one might have expected of Nazi Germany, but not of the United States.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I reminded Kim that you’ve worked here for a decade, that you could still be of service. He said there was a position available.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He observed exactly what I saw four decades later: isolated hillocks of forest; long raised berms; canals; raised agricultural fields; circular, moat-like ditches; and odd, zigzagging ridges. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She takes down a cabbage-rose teapot and cups—a wedding gift from Mrs. Murphy that’s been in a box for decades—along with some recently recovered spoons from Mrs. Nielsen’s silver service. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It stays steady at that level for the next two decades, before plunging downward in 1992 as sharply as it rose thirty years earlier. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In my sleeping state, I would have needed decades more, perhaps even centuries, before I found the power to resurrect Alcyoneus myself. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z This was the regent who was to become my guardian and benefactor for the next decade. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This animation had run on a continuous loop for over a decade, until it was finally replaced by the Scoreboard on the morning Halliday died. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For more than two decades, the church members have been led by priests who have fought for the rights of workers and the poor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They found themselves crying out the names of their children, feeling the loss as keenly as though it had only just happened, even those to whom it had happened decades ago. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Even before the calamitous outcome of the 1996 premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z These trees had been growing there for decades, and David wanted to use them just to cook a meal? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z At least as important, King morally and politically legitimized a youth-led agenda of confrontational social change that would define one of the most crucial decades of the American Century. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The problems he’d warned of—and prioritized—over a decade earlier were persistently difficult to solve. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “ 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The same milk shakes we need to have together for another decade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Instead of reading in the library or attending lectures, I watched TV in my room, working my way through every popular series from the past two decades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But organic fertilizers have not come close to replacing the chemicals that state farms depended on for decades. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z During my first twenty or so years in prison, I accumulated very few possessions, but in the last few years I had amassed enough property — mainly books and papers — to make up for previous decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Four decades later, we were honored as heroes.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Though pockets of Federalist power remained alive in New England for over a decade, as a national movement with the capacity to dominate the debate about America’s proper course, it was a spent force. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I'd already been living in the United States for a decade. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Slowly, using her best script, she copied her notes from the past two decades of insect study. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So when we said "Be omideh deedar" on those phone calls, we had to keep the hope alive for decades before we saw each other. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In this and other ways the Ptolemies were able, in just a few decades, to amass the largest collection of books in the Greek world. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Since starting in the car business more than a decade ago, Golomb has sold, on average, about twenty cars a month, which is more than double what the average car salesman sells. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z My hands tremble as I struggle to tuck the decades’ worth of filtration straws under the mattress in my beehive cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I’ve stayed silent for nearly a decade, never telling a soul. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But a decade had passed, and Darwin had never published the promised book on the genesis of “variability in organic beings.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then came those whom Paul’s committee had labeled “pioneers”—women who had battled for decades to gain the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The wineries flourished for three decades; the art colony collapsed within a few months. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Bill Harvey, now home after nearly a decade in Berlin, was assigned to lead Operation Mongoose. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They probably had a stack of flat pennies somewhere in the company-store offices, collected over the decades. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Almost four decades had passed, but in an instant, I was fifteen again. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As you well know, we have not detected such aggressive activity from the SES in decades. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It had been decades since a White House Victory Garden had been planted, on Eleanor Roosevelt’s watch, and no one seemed much interested in a reprise. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Between eleven and one, while Gogol sleeps, she gets dinner out of the way, a habit she will maintain for decades to come. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The data collected on the colored pilgrims and their descendants over years and decades, the doctor said, will prove one of the boldest scientific enterprises in history. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For the next decade all across Europe they furiously thought and scribbled and offered competing hypotheses. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z These tensions and animosities would brew and simmer for many decades, and eventually they would result in urban unrest on a grand scale in the twentieth century. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In the closing decades of the nineteenth century the sleeping giant of Russia had awoken. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The first new successful antibiotic in a decade is tested on 8 January 2016. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Since the start of the decade, researchers had been noticing two new things about all cultured cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z If that were true, I thought, it would explain a lot of things, like how people could live the same day over and over for decades without losing their minds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z One study of the past three decades found a growing percentage of families that remained in the same fifth of families in terms of income, moving neither up nor down. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Please let me say this, honey. I’m sorry I haven’t been better. I think I got a little lost. Like for a decade.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of immortality, passing time ceased to matter. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z During the concluding decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries the idea of microbial control was slowly taking form. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On April 24, amid the escalating battle over school desegregation, with the city still dragging its feet nearly a decade after Brown v. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It had been almost a decade since the Nazis had rolled into Kraków. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The bad news was that nearly a decade into two conflicts characterized by surprise attacks and hidden explosive devices, those injuries were plentiful and grave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In some cases, clients had already been in prison for decades and had very few, if any, support systems to help them re-enter society. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Said the girl currently wearing clothing from five different decades.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Steel and other nearby industrial giants that are two decades gone. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I've represented mentally disabled people whose illnesses have often landed them in prison for decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Over the years I’d heard many rumors about my parents: that they were millionaires, that they were building a fortress on the mountain, that they had hidden away enough food to last decades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Two decades later, she relapses—after being clean for fifteen years—and is arrested for selling crack. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What she and her husband couldn’t know–what no one could know until Einstein explained things the following decade–was that the rocks were converting mass into energy in an exceedingly efficient way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Two decades later, in Batson, the Supreme Court reversed course, a nod to the newly minted public consensus that explicit race discrimination is an affront to American values. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I kicked and thrashed and stomped, but his boots were thick—no match for my shoes’ soft soles—and his muscles were like rocks after decades of hard labor against the earth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I like nineties shows and movies, but I do not wanna see my mom and auntie reenact that decade in dance. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z As dose as we stood, I could see how dilapidated the prison had become over the decades. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He listed every new find of old bones in the last two decades, and scoffed at them all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He saw me and crossed the room, and we made small talk for several minutes, neither of us acknowledging that we hadn’t seen each other in half a decade, neither of us alluding to why. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ruby was in her late eighties too, with a sharp mind that seemed decades younger than her frail body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the next decade tens of thousands of Europeans came to Massachusetts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For decades the press had been reporting that cell culture was going to save the world from disease and make man immortal, but by 1951 the general public had stopped buying it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was forcing them to question views that had been accepted for decades, to look carefully at what they had been taught. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z But nearly four decades had passed, half a lifetime for both of us. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In fact, under the three strikes regime in California, a “repeat offender” could be someone who had only a single prior case decades ago, and one arrest can result in multiple strikes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z However, official records of union people like Fannie killed over decades of worker strikes are spotty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But people are full of longings, and decade after decade, the hopes kept coming. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I feel a decade older than my years. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At the time of my visit, the Nisqually had been annoying state authorities for decades, tenaciously pursuing what they believed to be their right to fish on their ancestral fishing grounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “All of those decades—over a century!—of history. When you stood on the courtyard in the rain, you felt like the gods were singing in the heavens.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For almost two decades, Driscoll had been the Navy’s star code breaker. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Rachel and Ema had been in the same schools for nearly a decade and had never spoken. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In a decade, you will assume that your accountant has outsourced the basic preparation of your tax returns—if not more. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In a mass protest decades ago, thirty-one prisoners cut their Achilles tendons, lest they be sent again to work. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Zwicky’s deductions concerning dark matter wouldn’t attract serious attention for nearly four decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All along—not only since she left, but for a decade before—I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as poor a window as I did. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They were shades —the chattering ghosts Hazel had lived with for decades in the Fields of Asphodel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z These powerful men managed to keep all federal housing assistance programs out of Durham for a decade and a half. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A decade after Mohammed’s death in 632, his followers had captured Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This little flowered book has now survived a couple of decades and multiple moves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z |
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