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It felt like once he had proven himself capable of helping me qualify for the national team, his priorities shifted. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Within six months, Anorak’s Quest became a national bestseller. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
This is what happened in some of the western national forests a few years ago, when in 1956 the United States Forest Service sprayed some 885,000 acres of forested lands with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The East versus West rivalry carried over to football with the annual East-West Shrine Game and added interest every January to the Rose Bowl—then the nearest thing to a national collegiate football championship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
“Yeah, but this is a national competition. There should be some diversity up in here.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
King had gained national prominence during the Montgomery bus boycott a decade earlier. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
Princesse was at home with us; she was a senior that year and had been preparing for the national exam to earn her diploma. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Back home, a national debate was raging over H-bomb testing, provoked by the fallout fiasco of the Bravo tests. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Drug use, once considered a private, public-health matter, was reframed through political rhetoric and media imagery as a grave threat to the national order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
This warder said that I must cease discussing politics, and I told him that I was dealing with a matter of national importance involving an offer from the state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was followed by Reagan’s National Security Decision Directive, which declared drugs a threat to U.S. national security, and provided for yet more cooperation between local, state, and federal law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
She also called teachers in other high schools who had sent students to the nationals, just to get some tips on how to prepare and present. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
The national anthem, I later learned, is what he had sung every morning as a schoolboy in Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
They are national holidays in North Korea, and even in a no-exit labor camp, prisoners get the day off. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
So said the Bay Area press, so said much of the national press, and, one has to believe, so thought Ky Ebright. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
There was a lot more media attention and national news coverage than in any of my earlier cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Outside the Midland High band, dressed in its purple and gold costumes, played the national anthem. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
The board seemed unaware that Chicago now risked becoming a national, even global, embarrassment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
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
The points accumulated from all of these competitions would make up the US national rankings, and the top four finishers qualified for the national team for the following season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“Tomorrow the national guard’s going to show up here with a court order and carry him out like a hero,” Pedro Tercero said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The majority opinion was written by Lewis Strauss, who spared no effort to paint Oppenheimer as a weak-minded perjurer whose behavior had materially undermined national security. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
One recent national survey found that about 75 percent of students enrolling in community colleges said they hoped to transfer to a four-year institution. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Ever since failing to make the national team, I’d been in a funky mood. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Claiming a Communist plot, Hitler declared a national emergency. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
The hall had been built as part of the national headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a patriotic society founded in 1890. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
In the elaborate shell houses along the Langer See, oarsmen stowed their street clothes in lockers and began to don their national uniforms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The spoils of the win were eye-popping: a golden trophy, a brand- new bicycle, and a spot at the national All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio, as the official representative of the Virginia Peninsula. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The cases generated a lot of national media attention. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
It was suspected that her questions and outspoken behavior were not what Soviet leaders wanted in a national symbol. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
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
The programs on the national networks were broadcast live. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
One was delivered by Harold Hanson and the other by the author Alan Paton, who was also national president of the Liberal Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The news media latched onto McCarthy's speech and catapulted him to national prominence as the most aggressive anticommunist leader in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
It had started last year, because some parents were concerned that their children did not know the national anthem or the pledge. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
The clearest statement Washington ever made on America's national interest came in his Circular Letter of 1783, the last of his annual letters to the state governments as commander in chief. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Through the untiring efforts of Marjorie White, president of the Birmingham Historical Society, the church earned the national historic landmark status. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
In fact, the mere utterance of the words “sumo” and “rigged” in the same sentence can cause a national furor. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
"White! It's the purest white that can be found. Nobody makes a paint any whiter. This batch right here is heading for a national monument!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
But who on earth could Ebright have found that would knock a machine like Burnley out of a national championship boat? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Defenders of the Constitution, then and now, have saluted it as a sensible accommodation of liberty to power and a realistic compromise with the requirements of a national domain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
At the same time she taught us the Puerto Rican national anthem, which said Borinquén was the daughter of the ocean and the sun. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
The group sponsored a rally at the Durham County Stadium that attracted 3,500 whites, who applauded the racist rhetoric of Roy Harris, president of the national organization. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
He had tried to communicate that the national interest did not lie in simply continuing atomic bomb work, and even suggested banning atomic weapons by international convention “just like poison gases after the last war.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
On the night of October 30, 1938, only a small percentage of the national radio audience was tuned to CBS’s War of the Worlds broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
“It is the national anthem we sing here,” she snapped. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I read that Korean nationals are the most rescued people from the world’s mountaintops.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
When the three of us turned to face our country’s flags as the American national anthem played, I’d placed one hand over my heart and held my bouquet behind me with the other hand. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
He asked them all to please rise for the national anthem. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
I continued to train at the foundation in Manhattan and lived at home with my parents in New Jersey, but I would compete representing the United States as a member of the national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
As for weight, the men were in line with the national average, but the women typically said they weighed about twenty pounds less than the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
I hadn’t broken through on the domestic circuit yet, so my national ranking was barely worth mentioning. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
It sees the American Revolution as an incipient national movement with deep, if latent, origins in the colonial era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The Daily Mail, in the United Kingdom, even illustrated the report with a photo of a kilt, explaining that a kilt is “the national dress of Scotland.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
“Anyone who avoids having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
That was the golden ticket, because Martha Karolyi would select the next artistic gymnastics women’s senior and junior national teams based on the results at Nationals. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
The new people were something else before they were white—Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish—and if all our national hopes have any fulfillment, then they will have to be something else again. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
He wrote Odes in honor of the victors in the games at the great national festivals of Greece, and in every one of his poems myths are told or alluded to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ten years ago Ulbrickson himself had stroked Washington’s varsity to a national championship here. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The nine freshman boys who had beaten California would go to Poughkeepsie to race for the national championship after all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The rise of the American saloon was the most visible symbol of what was becoming a greater national problem than ever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
He thanks General Grant and the army for their struggle, and promises to have a national day of celebration very soon, with a great parade through Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
In 1991, Fuller received national attention when he was named superintendent of the Milwaukee school system, the nation’s seventeenth largest—despite a lack of elementary or secondary teaching experience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
In time, media interest in these kinds of stories grew into a national preoccupation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
However, it did produce the Pacific Crest Trail and secured the future of the AT by making it a de facto national park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Turkey, I said, was our national bird but the joke translated so badly and they were so puzzled and suspicious that I said yes, we would probably declare war on Turkey. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
For those at the time it meant that Hamilton became a martyr to the dying cause of Federalism and Burr became the most despised national leader since Benedict Arnold. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Stock prices and the dollar’s value dropped sharply as investors anticipated a national crisis. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
And everybody knows that Savanna made the finals in two different regionals last year, and had come close to placing at a national—so there was a good chance that she would make it in. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
Their pictures were featured prominently on posters, newspapers, and magazines—generating passive support for a national eugenics movement. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Shenandoah National Park has just eight huts, each able to accommodate no more than eight people in comfort, ten at a pinch, in 101 miles of national park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
When the national media heard about what had happened in Durham, he and Ann had become a hot story: America’s racial “Odd Couple.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Its aim was to agitate for a national constitutional convention for all South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Policy makers, like Secretary LaHood, who made driver distraction a national priority, certainly have had a huge impact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
We had to have national attention because this building is in a crisis and we do need help. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The new national flag flutters there as well, two red bands and a red maple leaf rampant on white, looking like a trademark for margarine of the cheaper variety, or an owl kill in snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Here is the explanation for what was so puzzling about the rosters of the Czech and Canadian national sports teams. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Any national plan for gradual emancipation needed to transform this racial demography by relocating at least a significant portion of that population elsewhere. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
During my first year on the national team, I was a workhorse who showed no mercy on the strip, but I was a lamb among my teammates, with the goal of forging friendships with them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
His funeral made the national news, the casket conducted through the streets of Oakland on a horse-drawn carriage followed by a procession of four Rolls-Royces, ten white limousines, and an assortment of Cadillacs and Lincolns. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
After we sang a welcoming song from the Catholic Hymnal, Mother Lucy read Matthew chapter five up to verse eleven, and then we sang the national anthem. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
Across Tokyo, shops and restaurants close as if it’s a national holiday. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I simply had more work to do in order to convince the gymnastics world that I could earn a spot on the national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
The ring has been smuggling precious national resources over the border into Canada. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
We were proud of our precious red scarves, which, like the national flag, were dyed red with the blood of our revolutionary martyrs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
As his hagiographers tell the story, Kim II Sung’s most important intellectual achievement—his brilliant juche idea—asserts that national pride goes hand in glove with self-reliance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
And in their place will be a national speech, wrapped and packaged, standard and tasteless. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
He also had three state titles and—thanks to an expensive club team Luke couldn’t afford—a shiny new junior national championship. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
And in the United States, my team and I had helped more young people sign up for federal student aid, supported school counselors, and elevated College Signing Day to a national level. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
“They are unpatriotic, for this is a national not a local fair,” an editorial charged on August 11, 1893. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
More than a third of the national budget was going to the military, leaving people hungry and without jobs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
However, now that martial law has been declared and the national guard has been activated, Alyce has been called on to airlift drinking water to evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
The phones at Sierra-tel, the national telephone company, weren’t going through anymore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
With my sights now set on making the junior national team, I wanted to do more, more, more. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
“Some histories repeat; some events are unique. There is regional, statewide, and national history. We share all of it in common as Americans.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Our involvement will be so great that we cannot—without national humiliation—stop short of achieving our complete objectives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
“When there are threats to national security, foreign or domestic, the government has to do what it feels necessary to make sure Americans are safe,” Jessica said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
All he had to do was tell them, and Dr. Samuel A. Mudd would become, instantly, a national hero. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“No, Miss Williams. It is not my national anthem.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
In 1878, the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections invited both the suffragists and the anti-suffragists to present their views on a national suffrage amendment before Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
She didn’t remember anything since the Minotaur, and couldn’t believe it when Gabe told her I was a wanted criminal, traveling across the country, blowing up national monuments. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
At the weekly meetings, members spent hours cursing out Martin Luther King and other national black leaders, calling them Communist dupes and worse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
The three MPs and the two nationals who had brought us to the center came running into the yard a few minutes into the fight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
In Brunswick, Georgia, the presidents of two national banks held a meeting. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
As the sign drama played itself out in the Langley cafeteria, an incident that would have national repercussions took place in Gloucester County, just twenty miles away. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Then, for good measure, he asked him to sing the first few lines of the national anthem. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
The Florida Keys are a national marine sanctuary, which means that the islands are supposedly protected by special laws against pollution, poaching, and other man-made damage. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
They were national movements, deeper, more subtle in origin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
The date of the execution arrived, and Horace Dunkins was killed in a botched execution that made national news. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
If eugenics was becoming a cottage industry in Germany, it was already a full-fledged national operation in America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Thousands of flags waved, adding their discordant national anthems to the racket. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
There were many motivations for these journeys: ambition, greed, national pride, religious fanaticism, prison pardons, scientific curiosity, the thirst for adventure and the unavailability of suitable employment in Estremadura. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
KdF was a national German organization that was supposed to make leisure activities available to the masses, regardless of social class. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
Initially, I didn’t tell Jake I was on a national team, but I told him I was a fencer and that I wanted to work on speed, strength, and agility. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
A couple of months earlier, all the national parks, along with all other nonessential government departments, had been closed for a couple of weeks during a budget impasse between President Clinton and Congress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
“I remember her telling us that Thanksgiving should actually be a national day of mourning or something like that.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
The Lightning came from a well-established soccer program with a history of sending teams to both state and national championships. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Duma Nokwe, the young and good-natured barrister who was then national secretary of the Youth League, was among them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The message had also been delivered on a national stage by celebrities such as Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the 1970s, the Attica Prison riots drew national attention to horrible prison abuses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Almost half of our national flags exhibit astronomical symbols. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was a national coach for the team, but most team members traveled to competitions with their personal coaches as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The Comptroller of the Currency controls the national banking system. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Take away the seat of national political power. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z
Instead, it began to seem a place where one’s views on the fraught politics of national security and weapons development loomed over one’s career prospects. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Arletta Paisley had recently become the national spokesperson for SmartMart, and with both of them greeting me at the city limits, I felt double welcomed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
Supreme Court, national organizations joined us and filed amicus briefs urging the Court to rule in our favor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Try not to think about the tanks we keep hearing rolling down the street or the gunshots from the direction of the national palace, the dead quiet once curfew sounds at six. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
By my ninth birthday, I was a national chess champion. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Soon after that, a flower shop, headstone engraver, and funeral parlor offered to sponsor me in national tournaments. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
I qualified for every national team for seven years straight, and that wasn’t an easy thing to do. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
From commercial music—pop and rock to jazz, from folk songs to national songs, religious and holiday songs, and multicultural music—children hear the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that make up their musical environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
I feel that America’s past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
“He’s the best sexer in Georgia. He won the national competition in Japan before he moved to the States. He can sex twelve hundred chicks an hour with one hundred percent accuracy.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
That percentage qualified us for 252 of 400 seats in the national assembly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
So what protected Marina from being arrested during the Great Terror, if hard work, success, and national glory weren’t enough to keep you from suspicion? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
If any national plan for ending slavery was to succeed, Virginia needed to be in the vanguard. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
McKissick told reporters that the sit-in was actually sponsored by several national and local civil rights and religious organizations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
It is possibly the most wonderful national park I have ever been in, and, considering the impossible and conflicting demands put on it, it is extremely well run. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
The game was broadcast on Canadian national television. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
As we shall see in chapter 6, many spurious rules, including some that have made national headlines, are the result of bungled analyses of grammatical categories like adjective, subordinator, and preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
“Electric scoring is used in regional, national, and international meets,” Coach told us. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
Of course everyone else—Blake the Klansman included—has been cropped out of the version making national news. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Also, we worked on reports and materials that seek to deepen the national conversation about the legacy of slavery and lynching and our nation's history of racial injustice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
And without his plan and his leadership—these two items seemed inextricably connected in his own mind—the government and inevitably the national union itself must collapse. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, Zlata’s focus switched from her studies and watching MTV to the closing of her school and the destruction of the national library. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
I had thought after all of those wins in the United States on the national circuit that I had proven that I could handle a major competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
As such, it is our duty to sift the sands, preserve the gold, and with it build a stronger national vertebrae. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
As public opposition to the racial ban against Anderson mounted, representatives of some two dozen local and national organizations formed the interracial Marian Anderson Citizens’ Committee. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
Or think about how you might present yourself if you were going on national television for the first time. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
He was, however, distinctive for his sense that the mobilization of these resources required abiding management and strategic orchestration at the national level. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A broad national consensus now exists that, whenever it is socially and politically advantageous to do so, class considerations should trump racial identity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“The town’s really divided over this, and it’s only made worse now that SmartMart hired Arletta Paisley as their national spokesperson.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
In fact, two of my friends on the national team, Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian, were with me on that overnight visit. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Boycotts had been used before, as far back as 1832, when a national convention of free blacks meeting in Philadelphia initiated a boycott of goods made by slave labor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
I had helped bring about the progress and national impact such that none could call us liars when we called Mr. Muhammad the most powerful black man in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Passed in 1917, this law states that anyone who “willfully communicates or transmits” documents related to national defense to others who are not authorized to see them can be fined and/or sent to prison. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Two years prior, I had scored the highest on a national placement test in my school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
They were not individuals inclined to soft-pedal their views about national politics and national security or, in Neylan’s case, about Robert Oppenheimer, whom Neylan described as “a man so conceited he just shoved God over.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The congressional debate over Hamilton’s financial plan and the location of the national capital had produced total legislative paralysis. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Louis had earlier organized a plan to capture leopards who made trouble around people’s homes and release them in one of the national parks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z
Just as Joe Slovo had taken the initiative concerning the suspension of the armed struggle, he again took the lead in making another controversial proposal: a government of national unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Washington had become the national champions and swept the Hudson. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
It traverses no notable eminences at all in Pennsylvania, offers no particularly memorable vistas, visits no national parks or forests, and overlooks the state’s considerable history. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Altogether, forty-two species of mammal have disappeared from America’s national parks this century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
At six-thirty, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
Monday was going to be a national day • Ifc • of mourning. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Marxists gave serious attention to national liberation movements and the Soviet Union in particular supported the national struggles of many colonial peoples. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
His arguments for a fortified national government became the centerpiece around which all the compromises and revisions of the eventual document congealed, giving him the honorary title of “Father of the Constitution.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I thought maybe he’d try and fail to get into national politics and that this would then motivate him to want to try something entirely different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
He wears his lieutenant's uniform on national holidays. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z
His response came at a reception in July at Berkeley’s elegant Claremont Hotel, marking Livermore’s launch as a national laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
It is not a martial song, or a victory song, the way many national anthems are. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
At virtually the same time, Odessa found its way into the national press as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was in the context of this spirit of activism by Indians, Coloureds, and Africans that Walter Sisulu first broached the idea to a small group of us of a national civil disobedience campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
On July 9 the House passed the Residence Bill, locating the permanent national capital on the Potomac after a ten-year residence in Philadelphia, all this decided by a vote of 32 to 29. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
“In two weeks the winner of this competition will travel to Washington, D.C., to represent our area at the national championships.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
During die war, a national magazine had photographed him in Hurtgen Forest; he had posed, more than just obligingly, with a Thanksgiving turkey in each hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Correctional officers had the power to punish young inmates by adding time to their sentences, with the result that California juveniles were locked up almost three times longer than the national average. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
As they carried their shells down the ramp to the water, the national champion California boys were an intimidating sight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Dean Thomas hopped three times around the room, singing the national anthem. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Shona was the country's national language, but most people spoke English as a result of being colonized. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Anyway, national publicity was in the offing for the Nation of Islam when Mr. Muhammad sent me on a three-week trip to Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
It had become a tradition for different crews to sing national songs during meals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
We could hear the loudspeakers outside playing the Republic’s national pledge. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
Right before chao comes, Minerva leads us in singing the national anthem. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
But their pleas went unheeded; the prospect of a national strategic advantage galvanized both the U.S.S.R. and the United States, and the nuclear arms race began. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because of my twelfth place win in Tunisia and my earlier gold medal finishes in the domestic tournaments, my national ranking had improved significantly. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“Maybe they are taking us back to the front,” Alhaji said, and for some reason we all started singing the national anthem, marching to the vehicles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
As I sat there one of them was inflating my faked memberships into meanings of national significance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Unfortunately, at the same time that civil rights were being identified as a threat to law and order, the FBI was reporting fairly dramatic increases in the national crime rate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
During the past twenty years, virtually every progressive, national civil rights organization in the country has mobilized and rallied in defense of affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Some of them deserved a shot at a national varsity championship before they graduated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Paraguay’s right-wing national police chief, for example, named his son Adolfo Hirohito, a tribute to Hitler and his soon-to-be ally, the emperor of Japan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The economic collapse of inner-city black communities could have inspired a national outpouring of compassion and support. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
In 1957, the Africanists had called for a vote of no confidence in the Transvaal executive at the national conference, but had been defeated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Europe might contain all the cultural capitals and current world powers, but in terms of America's national interest, it was a mere sideshow and distraction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
By my age, most athletes who were considered to have any real Olympic potential already had cadet, junior, or even senior national teams under their belts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Abby rounded the corner, nearly running smack into a nurse as she sprinted back over to us, a very small, very thin, brown-haired boy wearing an oversize Colombian national team jersey trailing behind her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
I had spent the entire competitive season with one goal in mind, to make the national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
“Such a fine poet, and such confused ideas! If he had died before the coup, I suppose he would have received a national tribute.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Especially Mr. Hermann Keufer, who rather likes his name and does not consider himself or his sauerkraut to be a threat to national security. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
“And know that I love you. More than food! More than the Colombian national team!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
As the boys—now officially the U.S. eight-oared Olympic rowing team— settled in at Travers Island they were, largely unbeknownst to them, beginning to become national celebrities. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The divisions of the 1790s did not match up with Jefferson's categories, either, since those supporting and those opposing a more powerful national government had all been good Whigs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In 2006, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church became a national historic landmark. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I remember standing there thinking, You just fell off the beam on national TV. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
The shootings at Sharpeville provoked national turmoil and a government crisis. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was already a military officer as well as a national hero who’d been awarded the country’s highest honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
They truthfully said they hadn’t begun it, they had no control over it—the idea was national, spontaneous, unorganized, and leaderiess. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Arden Jones is an African American foil fencer who won individual silver at the national championship, but wasn’t able to lead the USA team to glory at the International Grand Prix. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
Since it was a political season, and Senators Kennedy and Humphrey were crisscrossing the state running for president, the glare of national scrutiny was settling on West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
I insisted that the advance team at least equip Barack’s podium with a heater to keep him from appearing too uncomfortable on the national news. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The only problem was, people in the Muslim community often referred to me as “the Olympic fencer” because I was building a reputation as a professional athlete who competed on a United States national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“I’m taking a picture of a national gay landmark,” Alex tells him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
A year before, my coaches had been convinced that not doing the two-and-a-half twist had taken me out of the running for the national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
He was a Swiss, an immigrant, with his national passion for cleanliness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
How do you integrate your projects with local, national, and international events? with historical, biological, geological, and astronomical time scales? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
But, as Shin found out, they are quite willing to ignore national directives when presented with an industrious North Korean who keeps his mouth shut and works hard for sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
He was most aware of the national periodicals’ power, and he had come to regard me, if still suspiciously, as one avenue of access. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had no doubt that national press coverage of Walter's case would not help our cause at the Court of Criminal Appeals. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Mass funerals for the victims of state violence became national rallying points. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Converging on these towns, relos have segregated themselves, less by the old barriers of race, religion, and national origin than by age, family status, education, and, especially, income. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“I could see our national treasure then on a regular basis. Perhaps, I could conquer this jewel as El Conquistador conquered our island.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
If he’d been listening to the radio more regularly, he would have realized Friday was a national holiday and prepared for the possibility of no food line. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
When the American held its first national meeting in November, Anthony crashed the gathering. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
For it purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws—in effect, to discipline a truly continental union—while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
All Marines in the room rose as one and lifting their glasses they said in unison, “The President,” as the band played the national anthem. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was simply one more in the pile of creatures who sang the national anthem in the schoolhouse and stood in line to receive their Christmas presents. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Ministry blunders. . . culprits not apprehended. . . lax security . Dark wizards running unchecked. . . national disgrace. Who wrote this? Ah ... of course . Rita Skeeter.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
But best of all, I think, is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper: that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z
Muslims in the Ihram garb, or still in their national dress, walked slowly past, smiling. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Later, after the arena’s Jumbotron screen lit up with the names of the 2012 women’s junior national team, I was smiling so hard that the muscles in my face actually ached. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
He was much in demand as a speaker at student forums in Eastern universities and had appeared at many by the end of his short career as a national figure. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
But as the debate was nearing an end, I felt I had been too harsh with the man who would be my partner in a government of national unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution made precisely these points, but they were outmaneuvered, outargued, and ultimately outvoted by a dedicated band of national advocates in nine of the state ratifying conventions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
My friend Candace still hadn’t qualified for a national team, so I truly recognized what an accomplishment I had achieved. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The national government itself was in part to blame for this reversal after it showed it was divided on the issue. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
They would get top officials at the CIA to tell the FBI that Watergate had been an intelligence operation, a matter of national security. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Professors, doctors, and engineers had all been seized and disappeared for months and years in the interest of national security. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
He had made national news in the 1960s as a fierce opponent of civil rights and racial integration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“I am speaking of the national treasure in my arms,” he says, smiling. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Would I ever make the national team, much less an Olympic team? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“I’m sure of it. But there wasn’t a manhunt. A missing toddler normally would be national news. But they, um, they must have squashed it somehow.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
Twenty-eight percent of the women on the site said they were blond, a number far beyond the national average, which indicates a lot of dyeing, or lying, or both. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Shall we have him named a national hero after his tragic death? The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
"Badminton. And a bit of cricket. That's India's national sport, sir." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Sometimes Grub and I flew with him to visit one of Tanzania’s other national parks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z
The country’s success in the Great War inspired a new appreciation across the land for the value of scientific research as a national endeavor and as a foundation for industrial growth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
This is an especially lively problem at the moment, because of the immediate implications for national science policy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
As national heroes, cosmonauts were always in the public eye. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
There was no such thing as a permanent international alliance, only permanent national interests. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But the conflict within the American revolutionary generation remained a passionate yet bloodless affair in which the energies released by national independence did not devour its own children. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
"Do you suppose they really believe that?" the president said to his national security adviser, Robert "Bud" McFarlane. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
It was one thing to talk to national and local media, but this diary might be read by people outside Pakistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
And he dipped into his own money to pay Cornell project workers to explore the cathedral archives and the national archives of Peru and the municipal archives of Lima. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
The production was so popular that national and international tours were organized to provide an authentic presentation of the fictional story to audiences everywhere. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“Do you know that a national home decorating magazine wants to do a four-page color spread on this building?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
American intelligence agents in Southeast Asia reported to Washington that a national election would almost certainly be won by Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
The national leadership noticed Paul’s eloquence and devotion to suffrage, and after her lecture she was asked to serve on their board. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
At last, the world, the national, and the local pictures had been fused into one overwhelming drama of moral struggle in which everybody in the hall was participating. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had been willing to lay aside that conviction during the war, when national security required his participation in the highest councils of government planning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
This ought to be a little surprising in a national park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
That idea was parried by Oppenheimer, who argued that the “discouragement of the Berkeley group would result in the loss of something valuable to the national scientific health.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Tenzing became a national hero throughout India, Nepal, and Tibet, each of which claimed him as one of their own. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Win all three races there and, Ulbrickson figured, he might just convince the people of Seattle to again finance sending all three boats to Poughkeepsie for the national championships in June. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
“By this will we be remembered,” he wrote in The New York Times, “a black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into the national visage that is the Mall.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Durham was a microcosm of this national black debate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
All the other girls had been on the national team the previous year; I was the only newbie in the mix. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Washington edged second-place Yale by eight feet to emerge as de facto national champion. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
In 1794, while touring the terrain around the new national capital that would bear his name, he badly wrenched his back while riding. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He had decayed before a national TV audience, a miniseries of a death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had planned to watch the race with Pollard in the announcer’s booth, where Clem McCarthy would call the race for national radio. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
He said that my talents would provide Germany with a great service, one that would bring the Führer’s dream of a national art museum in his hometown of Linz to fruition. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
“Our national honor is at stake,” said Senator Richard Russell of Georgia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
It was bought by a national organization dedicated to the well-being of young girls. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
By a conservative calculation, this huge expansion of New York’s police force would be expected to reduce crime in New York by 18 percent relative to the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Faizah had now started competing on the national and international circuits as well and understood how devastating a loss could feel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“The profit in illegal tobacco is very high. The smuggling is a national scandal, Marchese, truly a national disgrace.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
The Petersen House is now a national historical site, and the building and rooms are preserved and restored to the setting of President Lincolns final hours. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
In addition, it called for a national day of work stoppage in protest against the racist and reactionary policies of the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The decline in crime that began in the early 1990s was accompanied by a blistering national economy and a significant drop in unemployment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
A massive orchestra—the Berlin Philharmonic merged with the national orchestra and supplemented by half a dozen military bands-—launched into Wagner’s Huldigungsmarsch, the March of Homage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
It was the fortuitous conjunction of these two vast reservoirs of philosophical and physical wealth that defined America's national interest and made it so special. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The national anthem played on cassette decks, competing with the honking of cars. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
“He’s going to be your manager, Fezzik. Fighting is the national sport of Turkey. We’re all going to be rich and famous.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
A lot of people point out in defense of the national parks that they have been starved of funds, and this is indubitably so. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Sometime early in 1992, he’d been approached by the leaders of a national nonpartisan organization called Project VOTE!, which spearheaded efforts to register new voters in states where minority turnout was traditionally low. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
And the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Still, the strikers held out for two years, while a national boycott of Marx & Haas Clothing pressured the company to sign a contract with the union for improved pay and working conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
When we were younger, he used to take us kids places, like the national park and the beach and a playground miles away that had a huge metal rocket ship. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
The news spread quickly, first to local media, then national, then international. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Ptolemy believed not only that behavior patterns were influenced by the planets and the stars but also that questions of stature, complexion, national character and even congenital physical abnormalities were determined by the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Finally the Dutch national crew dove into the melee, separating boys, pulling them back to their tables, smoothing out their feelings in crisp, perfect, diplomatic English. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
It was her first piece to get onto the national news, and twenty million viewers would see it. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
A graduate of the University of Iowa, he had been a student trainer there on a wrestling team that won the national championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was decided that if we were not convicted I would go underground to travel about the country organizing the proposed national convention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Incredibly, in spite of his small number of total mounts, his soaring win percentage invariably placed him near the top of the national jockey rankings for purse money won. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was green, white, and blue, the colors of the national flag, and it had number n on the back. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
The giving and the taking on the location of the permanent national capital had been positively fierce ever since the question had come before Congress in September of 1789. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I took the flag from Arul and stood straight as a soldier, singing the national anthem. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
The Bantu Authorities Act abolished the Natives Representative Council, the one indirect forum of national representation for Africans, and replaced it with a hierarchical system of tribal chiefs appointed by the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sitting in that car I thought of Dr. Jones’s predictions of national doom. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
But he liked the yacht’s heart-shaped hot tub, where he sat watching Ladybird Hope on a TV news hour calling him a threat to national security. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
With help from the national organization, we advertised for applicants on college campuses across the country while also looking for talent closer to home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
By omission, any national not of “German or related blood” was thereby relegated to the status of a subject of the state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Seven varsity crews paddled to the starting line, to race for the national title, in a ghostly light mist. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
On July 16 a record sixty thousand people pressed into Hollywood Park to see Seabiscuit try for the Gold Cup, while millions more crowded around radio sets to hear NBC’s national broadcast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The experiment that led to writing Black Like Me was done at the very end of 1959, before the first “freedom rides” or any other manifestation of national concern about racial injustice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Local news, national news, all the major networks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The Second Part of Rhetoric 89 That teed up what was to follow: the somewhat hangdog expression of national determination that was, a few days later, to lead to the formal declaration of war. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
Although it never seemed to be part of the conscious intention of either Jefferson or Madison at the time, the isolated location and de novo character of the national capital had even deeper political implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
As one senator put it: “Our national honor is at stake. We cannot and we will not shrink from defending it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Every national broadcast is reporting on Noah, and only on Noah. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
Offered in a year in which the average per capita income in the United States was $432, Strub’s purse caused a national sensation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Osborne, increasingly a national figure, was appointed warden of Sing Sing on December 1, 1914. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We have to do whatever’s in our national interest.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
The United Nations now defines genocide as an act, or acts, “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Record-setting flights were a good way to rally national support for aviation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Crowds of cheering and sweating white supporters and national news reporters filled the campus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
As a German national, Frisch was barred from Oliphant’s main research project, a secret effort to develop radar. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
On deck, men were assembling to raise flags as a band played the national anthem, a Sunday morning tradition. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
We had to reconstruct an entire organization, from the smallest local branch to the national executive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was national news, and there were lots of newspaper photographers and TV cameras. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
A little more than a month later, in August 1989, P. W. Botha went on national television to announce his resignation as state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Helms became a favorite among Citizens’ Council members and his editorials on this alleged conspiracy were a staple feature in the organization’s national magazine, The Citizen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Now, as the Asian festivities were apparently drawing to a close, a national pictorial magazine decided to do a “sensitive” and “searching” feature on Milagro’s “anguish.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now the school and its resident geniuses are going to be on national TV? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
That approach had raised Oak Ridge from an unpopulated valley in remote Tennessee; when national security hung in the balance, as it did now, who would begrudge a few hundred thousand kilowatts? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
One cannot interrupt galaxy formation, start and stop hurricanes and ice ages, experimentally exterminate grizzly bears in a few national parks, or rerun the course of dinosaur evolution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
I’d just achieved my goal of making the junior national team, and to be honest, I hadn’t thought much beyond that yet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
As he had hoped, the case demonstrated to many around the country the need for a national, more professional, scientifically skilled force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Like the editorial meetings in 1244, like so many competitive situations large and small, national and local, black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the whites only sign in view. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Woodhull said that because the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment made no reference to sex, then women also enjoyed the “privileges and immunities” of national citizenship, including the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
His first order was for all the houses to be painted blue in celebration of the anniversary of national independence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
“And let me say, I think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspapers.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Hitting the “free” in the national anthem was a thing of the past. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I trusted too long in false reassurances, believing as we all want to do when men speak of the national interest, that it’s also ours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
But progress on the issue of women’s suffrage on a national scale was moving at a painfully slow pace. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Just a few months into the season, I had fenced well enough in the domestic competitions that I now had a high enough national ranking to compete on the international circuit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
It is as if the hands on a great national clock were moving together toward high noon. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
Following the conference, a national John Reed Club congress was called. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
The next day at school when we rose to sing the British national anthem, everyone stared at me, but as soon as I opened my mouth, the class lost interest. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
During the drafting process in the summer of 1796, Washington kept urging Hamilton to insert a separate section on the creation of a national university in the capital city now being constructed on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
By now my mom was off in the remote reaches of a national park. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
The national press regularly reported on his campaign speeches, calling his farm Lawnfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
“Exactly. The case is about to gain national media attention, but I don’t want it to be at her expense.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
At the service’s conclusion, Roy Wilkins, the conservative executive director of the national NAACP, came to the pulpit and delivered a restrained endorsement of the Durham student protests. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
By the time he was a college senior, he had become the national champion, an honor he would repeat twelve more times over the course of his career. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Dad entered Ernestine’s name in a national speed contest, as a sort of child prodigy, but Mother talked him out of it and Ern never actually competed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
He called out the national guard to rescue the senator. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
In addition to training sessions twice a day, we had to sit for media interviews from the gaggle of media outlets—both national and international—camped out in Rio. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“I go to school myself and I know there is a lot of law, state law, national law, and local law.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
Sponsored by a major newspaper, the Johannesburg Sunday Times, their team had inspired effusive national pride and had received a personal blessing from President Nelson Mandela prior to their departure. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Then Ellen’s voice was heard, timid and a little tremulous; farm women didn’t enter often into man-talk of politics or national affairs. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was appointed national volunteer-in-chief of the campaign and chairman of both the Action Committee and the Volunteer Board. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The national news printed his mother's full statement decrying the violence that took her son's life, and demanding justice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I hold my head high and check that people notice the Syrian national strip I wear. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
The authorities both local and national had to spend every penny in their treasuries and every second of time in the sole task of dealing with the chaos. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Although the official campaign for the national assembly was not scheduled to begin until February 1994, we started to campaign in earnest after the new constitution was ratified. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
At the end of every prep session Mr. Dimming gave us another official quiz from national headquarters. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
I’d once again set my sights on winning a spot on the women’s junior national team, and this time, I meant to succeed. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Now it is a divisive national issue, pitting those who welcome cheap labor against those with concerns about border security and the cost of providing social services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Many of their closest friends and colleagues in Virginia had urged them to regard Hamilton’s program as clinching evidence of a foreign takeover of the national government that fully justified a withdrawal from the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In Iowa, during a presidential election, it was held in early November, about eight weeks ahead of the January caucuses, and covered by the national media. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Umkhonto we Sizwe will carry on the struggle for freedom and democracy by new methods, which are necessary to complement the actions of the established national liberation movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The team that emerges as the winner will appear live on national television on Good Morning America the next morning!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
“A national history prize. You didn’t know about this?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
C. J. continued, “With the information we have, we are going to notify state and national public health officials.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
And my parents said it was okay for me to go with Pete and his family to see the national fireworks tomorrow. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
“We have to find Ralph, man. We have to. It’s a national emergency.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
Over in Britain, the world’s first national broadcaster, the BBC, came into being in 1922, ushering in an age when music would come to belong to everyone, everywhere, often enjoyed completely for free. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
In just one day I will be in Washington, D.C., on national television. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
One was the manner in which Paul and the other leaders shifted attention away from state-level voting rights toward a constitutional amendment granting women the national right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The national points standing list included points accumulated at both domestic and international competitions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
But I was nevertheless persistent and I raised the matter once more at the national conference in December 1951, where the delegates dismissed my view as emphatically as the National Executive Committee had done. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
On that day, after months of negotiations at the World Trade Centre, the multiparty forum voted to set a date for the country’s first national, nonracial, one-person- one-vote election: April 27,1994. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
My presence was cute at first, maybe okay for a local competition, but for the big game—on national television—that’s different. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
But in the South it generated even more contempt for the national press, and that animosity has lingered beyond the Civil Rights Era. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I’d apply for prestigious national fellowships and tell friends that the reason I won was because I was a minority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had telephoned the national headquarters of Howard Johnson’s and had asked them to “encourage” the local franchise to desegregate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
That bands would perform and young people would be dressed up on national TV showing off their booms and ticks. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
But in the end, his desire to build eugenics into a “national religion” outweighed his qualms about negative eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
I was caught in a particular moment of national history, smack in the middle of a city known as the nation’s hotbed of racial injustice and violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
With each foreign athlete’s victory, an abbreviated version of his or her national anthem was played. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
Crosby perched on the roof with Oscar Otis, who would call the race for a national radio broadcast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
At safe houses arranged by the organization, I met the editor of the liberal Port Elizabeth Evening Post to discuss the campaign for a national convention, a goal several newspapers subsequently endorsed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now that CORE’s presence was revealed, the protesters felt free to make the most of these links, emphasizing the national dimensions of the movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
The Orangeburg massacre did not generate the same national outrage and agonizing self-examination as would the killings of four white students at Kent State University two years later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
“We have the rocky situation where the sonofabitching thief is made a national hero and is going to get off on a mistrial,” he told an aide. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Hamilton was a musical celebration of America’s history and diversity, recasting our understanding of the roles minorities play in our national story, highlighting the importance of women who’d long been overshadowed by powerful men. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Bayona had had the girl’s sputum cultured and sent everything to the Massachusetts State Lab, quietly bypassing the Peruvian national lab in order to protect his friend from scrutiny. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there’s some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
The race had no national importance, but in Detroit it was the big event of the racing season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
I wore my national team warm-up and headed out the door of our hotel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“I know! That big ole underwear looked like the national flag of the Land of Big Behinds flapping in the breeze like that.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
If anyone still had doubts that this was a national movement, King dispelled them that night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Without some kind of breakthrough, the entire experiment with republican government at the national level would “burst and vanish, and the states separate to take care of everyone of itself.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A dad looks up from his BlackBerry and says, “When does the national tour go out?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
Bri and Julie promptly fought over the remote control, only to find it was a national day of mourning and all the TV stations had memorial services on, with sermons and choirs and politicians. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
A war of national liberation or simple aggression? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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
But I also receive national and international invitations to share that same passion for reconciliation in our world. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Indeed, Woodall refused to relinquish leadership of the expedition or make any kind of compromise, even after he received a message from President Mandela appealing for reconciliation as a matter of national interest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Easily talented enough to thrive on the collegiate and national levels. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
Now far above national average in height, weight, strength. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
It was risky, but we hoped that national press coverage of our side of the story would change the narrative. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Outstanding oarsmen were lionized in the national press, even in the era of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
But his exhortations toward national unity were less descriptions than anticipations, less reminders of the way we were than predictions of what we could become. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
It’s often considered the national dish of Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
He began his Sunday with a twelve-minute phone call to his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, a staunch believer in the Madman Theory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Civil rights activists have created a national movement to save affirmative action, complete with the marches, organizing, and media campaigns, as well as incessant strategy meetings, conferences, and litigation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
“Mrs. Matsika is lying down. She had a bad night. The General is meeting with the President over a national emergency. I think the Gondwannans shot down a Zimbabwean airplane.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
If God wanted me to succeed, no one, not the national coach nor my teammates, could change what was written. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
It was a national project to select landing sites for future passenger airports in the Crimea, Caucasus, and Sea of Azov areas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
You wish to know that your grief is happening on a local level, not on a national one. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
“The course of world history has affected national psychology. Jitters have come to roost.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
The Stars and Bars that people regard today as the national symbol of the Confederacy is actually a battle c , „ , flag that was used by Confederate armies, not an off!- Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
And what appears in retrospect like a prudent and farsighted vision of the national interest looked to Jefferson like a betrayal of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A starving Greek community defies Nazi soldiers by hanging out thousands of forbidden national flags. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Ms. Ofrah arranged for me to do an interview with one of the national news programs today—exactly a week before I testify before the grand jury next Monday. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
They tune in to newscasts, concerts, operas, national choirs, folk shows, a dozen children in a semicircle on the furniture, Frau Elena among them, hardly more substantial than a child herself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
Armpit’s mother had had to shoo away a number of reporters, local and national. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
He started dividing the satyrs into groups—which ones would go to the national parks, which ones would search out the last wild places, which ones would defend the parks in big cities. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
I am fairly sure the answer is A, but that word could mean “big-headed crippled kid who thinks she can win in a national quiz competition.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
Someone in the class saw a flyer announcing a national competition to design a Vietnam veterans’ memorial. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Faizah was in a good position to qualify for the Olympic team as well because her national ranking was around fifth or sixth place. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
After Woolf dismounted, Azucar butted him out of the way, ran over a spectator, slashed the NBC Radio wire—cutting off the national broadcast—and dragged his terrified groom down the track like a toboggan. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Madison’s more judicious arguments, published as the Virginia Resolutions, were circulating in the national press and achieving the same goal—condemning the Sedition Act but without recourse to nullification. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
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
Washington realized it meant sustaining the national purpose as embodied in the Continental Army. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In an open letter to township residents and policy makers, he criticized “idiosyncratic alternatives” to public districts, many of them “owned and operated by large national corporations whose number one mission is to enrich shareholders.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
He stood for the national anthem and the announcement of the starting lineup. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
In this section, we will examine various discipline and national standards for the arts, particularly music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
Here were people who made a living pitching tents or lying in a fetal position before our national monuments. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
Among its provisions are establishing a forty-hour work week and a national minimum wage as well as prohibiting oppressive child labor and most employment of minors. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
It was the first national women’s political organization in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Monroeville, Alabama, celebrated its native daughter Lee shamelessly after her award-winning book became a national bestseller in the 1960s. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I thought I had a pretty good chance of having things go my way until one evening when we sat watching the national news. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I’d failed to make the national team five years before, it had forced me to commit myself to becoming a better gymnast. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
In the spring she quietly entered it in the national competition. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
They certainly weren’t going to aid his attempt to defeat them at their own national pastime. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
After losing one major race on a highly regarded runner, he flatly told the national press, surely to the horror of the owner, that the horse just wasn’t any good. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The city remained mostly closed, but he supposed tomorrow things would open up again, when the national day of mourning was over. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
With nearly eight hundred rooms and a vast, monolithic façade overlooking the Thames, the Cecil was Europe’s largest, if not grandest, hotel—a site typically reserved for diplomatic or national events. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
There was not a single item of conventional trail food—raisins or peanuts or small, portable quantities of packets or canned goods—which was a little dispiriting in a national park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
The national government learned something because of the yellow fever epidemic as well. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
The fair prompted President Harrison to designate October 12 a national holiday, Columbus Day, which today serves to anchor a few thousand parades and a three-day weekend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Because I was the newest member of the national team and because no one had ever even mentioned my name in the same breath as the Olympics, I didn’t talk about my Olympic dreams. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“This newsstand has been touched by the Golden Finger of Fortune! They’ll probably make a national park out of it.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only one of the previous year’s national champions now sat in his varsity boat, and Ebright remained perplexed by the poor performance of the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
And wherever it seems appropriate, we differentiate national or local styles within a period, until we arrive at the personal styles of individual artists. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You must name every landmark in Bhutan in Dzong-kha, the national language.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
The trial captured national attention and helped convince the public of the importance of academic freedom. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
After five years, the government of national unity would become a simple majority-rule government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then the educational program transformed into a national emergency. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
The All-in Conference called for a national convention of elected representatives of all adult men and women on an equal basis to determine a new nonracial democratic constitution for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He wrote King expressing support and urging him to turn the action into a national nonviolent protest movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
When she brought him his plate, the national anthem was playing on the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
In August he appeared on national television to explain his position. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
In April Ulbrickson had all but crowed to both national wire services that this all-sophomore crew was great—“potentially the greatest crew I have coached,” he’d said, in front of the whole world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Hamilton had not held national office for nine years and the Federalist cause he had championed was well on its way to oblivion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In Washington’s case, the most obvious corollary to his view of American national interest was the avoidance of a major war during the gestative phase of national development. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But Harriet never found its equal and devoted her life instead to poetry, eventually founding Poetry magazine, where she helped launch Ezra Pound toward national prominence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Elections to regional legislatures would take place at the same time as national elections, and the regional bodies could draw up their own constitutions consistent with the national constitution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
For President Truman and his national security advisers, the situation demanded only one answer: to build more and bigger atomic bombs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
He’s spoken to the Detroit Lions football team, and gives a regular presentation to the top high school basketball players in the world when they gather at national clinics. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
No sooner had this been accomplished than the band started to play the national anthem. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
The national network proved very effective, providing heavyweight support for the brave but legally powerless. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Armstead had been ranked higher than Granger in some national magazine a few years earlier and officially became the school with the best facilities, the best teachers, and the most Ivy League acceptance letters. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
The ghouls and ghosts closed in - two hundred of them facing Jason in anticipation, as if he might lead them in the national anthem. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
To secure the Revolution and stabilize its legacy on a national level required a dominant leader who focused the energies of the national government in one “singular character.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Her donut song was picked up by a national donut chain and was her “big money hit.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
Eugenics, he proposed, had to be “introduced into the national consciousness, like a new religion.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
She looked intrigued, which was new, because Katie usually walks around with this distracted expression on her face, like she’s busy figuring the square root of the prime number closest to the gross national product. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
At this bush meeting we agreed in principle on a five-year government of national unity in which all parties polling over 5 percent in a general election would be proportionally represented in the cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was one of the perks of being on the national team that I never knew about. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Of all the developments in the Soviet Union, the method by which scores of backward peoples had been led to unity on a national scale was what had enthralled me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
And on a national basis, I had either directly established, or I had helped to establish, most of the one hundred or more mosques in the fifty states. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
The first-place teams from across the state go to Washington, D.C., for the nationals. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
He had nearly finished when the national news began. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
“It was an ultimatum. Do as he says, or close down. And, Oliver, for God’s sake, all those not-so-subtle threats and hints about national security and so on—can’t you see where that would lead?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
But this admission, made in national magazines, only brought me a greater degree of success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was my national anthem, and I was about to meet the queen. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
A national recession was under way, steel orders were reduced, and Coalwood was producing more coal than the steel company needed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
My ranking hovered between the number two and three spot on the national rankings, and the Olympic team now felt more like a possibility and less like a dream. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
If the Sedition Act was a serious threat to civil liberties, Jefferson’s response was an equally serious threat to the sovereignty of the national government and the survival of the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A national group called the People-to-People Committee was attempting to raise funds for the team, and the executive director asked Bobby if he’d give a simultaneous exhibition to publicize the team’s plight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
But such an agreement was at best tentative, for each national group faced problems peculiar to itself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I remember when I did my first few assignments as a brand-new national team member, I’d congratulate the other girls after their routines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
We are not their particular “problem,” nor their national guilt. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Instead they had emerged as the German national team through their obvious prowess as a unit. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The national media attention — the articles in the big women’s magazines and the appearance on television shows that would turn Wells into a celebrity — hadn’t started yet either. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We have a national emergency on our hands,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In front of them was a long table with the two models for the new junior high school, each one covered with a white sheet, like they were some sort of national secret. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
Was he trying to find out whether I had taken up any of his accusations with the national leadership of the party? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some had domes and columned porticoes, like national monuments. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
The grouchy woman looked at my drawings of the Lithuanian coat of arms, Trakai Castle, our patron saint, Casimir, and the stork, the national bird of Lithuania. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
They weren’t even given national recognition for their wartime service until 1977. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
And finally, the bald man joined in, singing our national anthem. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
Malcolm’s meteoric eruption on the national scene brought him into wider contact with white men who were not the “devils” he had thought they were. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
For Jefferson also had a national vision and a firm conviction about where American history was headed, or at least where it ought to be headed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He announced that the national threat level, which had been jacked up to orange around the joyless first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, was being dropped. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
The agent’s telling him that if he handles this just right, this crisis could propel him to the national stage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
There is something curious about the national flags of the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I took my national examinations, and while I was waiting for the results to come in, I went to see President Moi. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
What I did know was that not getting a spot on the national team had made me more determined to excel in elite gymnastics. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
More than that, he was one of those responsible for the organization of the G.A.R. as a cohesive and potent force in the national life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
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
From the radio, the Biafran national anthem burst out and filled the silence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
I hold on to Ruth May while he and the rest of Congo secretly hold a national day of mourning for lost Independence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hamilton was hardly unique in his recognition that the vast resources of the North American continent constituted a repository of riches that, once unlocked, offered prospects of unparalleled prosperity and national destiny. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The Argentine Naval Band played the British and Argentine national anthems with an accompaniment of barking, growling, snarling, and howling from the dogs as Endurance set sail on the next leg of the voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
Socios en Salud wasn’t granted access to Peru’s national lab, so Farmer sent the ten specimens back to Boston and deposited them at the Massachusetts State Lab. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Madison wanted to take slavery off the national agenda because he believed that decisive action would result in the destruction of either the Virginia planter class or the nation itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Madison wanted to use the vote on the committee report to create the equivalent of a landmark decision prohibiting any national scheme for emancipation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The foundation only waived their fees when young athletes showed potential to distinguish themselves on the national and international stage. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
My individual results continued to climb as well, improving both my national and international rankings, being recognized both on and off the strip for my efforts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The day was symbolized for me by the playing of our two national anthems, and the vision of whites singing “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” and blacks singing “Die Stem,” the old anthem of the republic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some became Public Allies staff themselves; some are now even leaders in government agencies and inside national nonprofit organizations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The commander of the national guard ordered his men at the palace to leave because the police had just joined the coup. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The answer recalled the earliest advice half-jokingly offered by a newspaper editor when the residency question had first appeared on the national agenda: Give the decision to George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A year later, Odessa made national news again when someone made the fateful mistake of accusing an escaped convict from Alabama named Leamon Ray Price of cheating in a high-stakes poker game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
We were flooded with media requests, and Walter and I gave television interviews to local, national, and even international press who wanted to report the story. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“This was a good school, ranked high on the national scale, and now our halls are filled with soldiers and people are treating us like criminals!” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
By late 1990, it seemed possible that Haiti might have a legitimate national election, though it wouldn’t happen without resistance from the junta. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
King began to emerge as a charismatic national figure. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
Another source of information for discussion at the Klavern hall was the national UKA magazine Fiery Cross. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Sacrifices had to be made for national security. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
Singing the national anthem was relatively new at Daughters of the Immaculate Heart. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
Paul had developed her organization without support from the national board, and she wasn’t eager to hand over the bank account and her decision-making power. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The Houston schools, and any other noncontenders for the national title, are gone. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The other two were nationals, one with tribal marks on his cheeks, the other with marks on his hands just like the one my grandfather gave me to protect me from snakebite. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
A third national flag, nicknamed the Blood- Stained Banner, was authorized on March 4, 1865. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
I wanted a true government of national unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the spring of 2005, The New York Times published a series of articles on class in America, a dimension of the national experience that tends to go unexamined, if acknowledged at all. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
In 1998, Walter and I were asked to go to Chicago to attend a national conference where exonerated former death row prisoners were planning to gather. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The feeling of looking at things with a painful and unwarrantable nakedness was an experience, I learned, that transcended national and racial boundaries. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Directly after the conference I sent Prime Minister Verwoerd a letter in which I formally enjoined him to call a national constitu-tional convention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
We were in Paris training at INSEP, the national French sports training center, prior to our World Cup. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Editorials by Austin, an uncompromising advocate of integration and full rights for blacks, had a national audience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
A word from him was often enough to keep newspapers from printing a story that compromised national security. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
But Harvard and Yale did not row in any kind of intercollegiate championship regatta beyond their own annual match, and there was no semblance of a national championship event until 1895. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
In Iraq, the sounds of the national bird, the chucker partridge, play over the speakers discreetly hidden behind the merchant carts offering beautiful silk scarves and shirts. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
The idea for the project originated with Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, but with very little guidance or assistance from the national organization, C.P. fashioned a Youth Corps, which reflected his values and priorities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Often in the pay of local political bosses, they had no national reach. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
In fact, Durham was reacting to a host of local, national, and even international pressures that made change inevitable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
It took the president’s going on national television to give people a vision for a better future. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Congo had national finals for sixth and twelfth grades. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
With any luck, Ebright would be coming home by way of Berlin with both a national title and a third consecutive gold medal. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
During the course of that debate, which lasted between four and six hours, things were said that had never before been uttered in any public forum at the national level. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Soon after she won the national parachuting championship in 1961, she was recruited for the female cosmonaut program. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
In the Soviet Union these include capitalism, God, and the surrender of national sovereignty; in the United States, socialism, atheism, and the surrender of national sovereignty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Despite her discouraging introduction to the team dynamic, Eliza continued her quest to make the national team, and she displaced Daria as our newest team member. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
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
Many of them have been driven out of business by national “organic” supermarket chains like Whole Foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
A few weeks later, Nixon asked Henry Kissinger to be his national security advisor. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
He had access to all manner of top secret information, and as far as I was concerned, most especially on matters of national security, he needed no input from me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
But the boycott marked the beginning of a national campaign against the Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Simply put, Washington had developed a view of both personal and national independence that was completely immune to sentimental attachments or fleeting ideological enthusiasms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I think my mother sensed that afternoon that the person whose essay she saw in a national magazine was a person unfamiliar to her, some Other. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I supported Chief Luthuli, but I was unable to attend the national conference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The increasing rate of executions in Alabama went against the national trend. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
They tried out the piano and examined the public address system, a battery of six microphones that would broadcast the event to those present at the Memorial and also to the national radio audience. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
The national feeling of the tommy resolves itself into this—here he is. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Half the members of the assembly would be elected on a national basis and half on a regional one, and the assembly would be empowered both to write a new constitution and to pass legislation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Down in the national news section, there’s an article on a new pill, the “Valium” they’re calling it, “to help women cope with everyday challenges.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Afterward, I was once again chosen for the national team and selected to compete on behalf of my country at the World Championships, which would be held in Nanning, China, in October. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Washington, D.C., and Chicago both instituted handgun bans well before crime began to fall across the country in the 1990s, and yet those two cities were laggards, not leaders, in the national reduction in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Evers had attracted national attention back in the early 1960s when he led a store boycott in Jackson, Mississippi, and when he helped black student James Meredith enter the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
A few months later my parents enlisted the help of a Zionist organization—one of the groups whose goal was to establish a Jewish national state. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Robert Fumulani, the blessed father of our national music, stared down, looking angry. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z
In the ensuing national hysteria Congress funneled millions upon millions of dollars into the California- based aerospace industry, and the boom was on. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only those leaders who had stepped forward at the national level to promote the great cause when its success was still perilous and problematic were eligible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
It further rankled the westerners that the prejudices of the East overwhelmingly prevailed in the national press, which often seemed to operate on the assumption that anything west of the Rockies was China. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Seattle baseball had never really made it onto a national stage at all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The winner of that final set of quiz questions will be declared our local elementary-school-level champion and will proceed to the nationals in Washington. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z
The sit-in was planned to achieve the maximum national effect and paced to build a powerful and sustainable movement capable of destroying Jim Crow. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
“Certainly,” the New York Times reported in March 2000, “inflationary wage gains are not evident in national wage statistics.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Besides the cop, I’m the only person who was there. And you’ve seen stuff like this. It ends up on national news. People get death threats, cops target them, all kinds of stuff.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
The world’s leaders met with the vuvv, after meeting with national Chambers of Commerce and various lobbyists. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I was the three-time US national champion and the two-time World Champion, which meant people’s expectations of me in Glasgow were sky high. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
In 1929, even before the stock market crash, a national newspaper story reported, “In five years, if the oil map continues to shift, the tribe may have to go back to work.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
They declared January 24 as a national day of commemoration for all fallen Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Traditionally and nostalgically it is Old South Democrat, but this does not prevent its voting conservative Republican in national elections while electing liberals to city and county posts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ten of us met in a Loop hotel room and, to my amazement, the leaders of the club’s national board confirmed my criticisms of the manner in which the clubs had been conducted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
And her parties, and their vigorous libel actions against national newspapers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
“What the hell? Did my parents call the freaking national guard?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
She was just a few days younger than I was, but she’d been named to the national team two years before. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Mudgett foresaw no difficulty in acquiring the cadavers, although in fact a national shortage of corpses for medical education had by then driven doctors to raid graveyards for the freshly dead. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
The Soviet government considered it a national embarrassment and punished him for not drawing at least one game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The national government placed him in the category of a bandit and put a price of five thousand pesos on his head. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
Our school was public, but one of those progressive ones that always got written up in national magazines because of its emphasis on the arts. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Burnham replaced him with Edward Shankland, an engineer from his own firm who possessed a national reputation as a designer of bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Many of the national reviewers who wrote their opinions of Warriors Don’t Cry mentioned this paragraph as being significant, beautifully written, and haunting. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
In fact, I was already dreaming of performing as an elite-level gymnast and making the national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Spontaneously the throng began to sing “My Country ’Tis of Thee,” which many thought of as the national anthem although no song had yet received that designation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
It took a clobbering in the Blitz—I wasn’t there, thank God—and the replacement buildings and the tower block are a national disgrace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
And there could be no life and no peace in Southern Sudan for anyone with dark skin who opposed the national government. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
His death provoked a national outcry and massive sympathy marches in cities across the North. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
France is built on its own dream, on its collection of bodies, and recall that your very name is drawn from a man who opposed France and its national project of theft by colonization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
He did not view the clash between England and France for supremacy in Europe as a distant struggle far removed from America’s long-term national interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer. 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 been cloudy for a few days; maybe the solar panels couldn’t muster up enough energy anymore, and without backup from the national power lines, they gave out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
The controversy over the bus boycott vaulted the young Dr. King into the national headlines as the leader of the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The office of the presidency, as he saw it, was designed to levitate above the party squabbles and transcend partisan versions of the national interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A group of experts at the U.N. urged a national convention for South Africa that would lead to a truly representative parliament, and recommended an amnesty for all op-ponents of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
German beer drinkers are fiercely loyal to their local brand, so there are no national brands in Germany analogous to our Budweiser, Miller, or Coors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The assistance of CORE, with its national network of activists and long experience with direct-action campaigns, would be vital in transforming the Greensboro sit-in from an isolated “incident” into a true movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
An electronic river of true pain had sprung up in that period of national soul-searching, far deeper than I’d imagined, and it was wrenching to have so much of it run literally through my fingers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She’s the youngest national League president in history, perhaps the only person in this world Hilly’s afraid of. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
His model was England, with its national bank, regulated commerce, and powerful finance ministers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
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
They created the American republic, then held it together throughout the volatile and vulnerable early years by sustaining their presence until national habits and customs took root. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
People hold on to their national foods, even after they move to other countries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
My sister’s national and international ranking was climbing steadily, even though she was balancing competing with a heavy courseload at college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
A reasonable estimate of the additional costs for capitalizing a gradual emancipation program would have increased the national debt to about $125 million. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The college boy was a national hero, and collegiate was the most complimentary adjective in the American vocabulary. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their homes are worth an average of $400,000, twice the national average, and they have nearly twice as many rooms as the average house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
We polled 62.6 percent of the national vote, slightly short of the two-thirds needed had we wished to push through a final constitution without support from other parties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He helped build the North Carolina Mutual into a national business giant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
It also helped that he was strikingly good- looking and built like the oarsman he had been, the former stroke oar of a Washington crew that had won national championships in 1924 and 1926. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Like his misguided obsession with those Potomac canals, his campaign for a national university in the capital city never bore fruit. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But the brazen claim that slavery must be accepted unconditionally as a permanent feature of the national confederation was, if not wholly new, at least an interpretive clarification never made before in a national forum. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I’d then visualize making the national team, imagining it like a movie. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
All had passed the legislation without significant involvement of the national suffrage leaders. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
In it, I merely said, “I wish to see you on a matter of national importance.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
State, local, and national media outlets were crowded outside the courthouse when I arrived the next morning. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
By 1932, the modest, mild-tempered Cunningham, whose legs and back were covered in a twisting mesh of scars, was becoming a national sensation, soon to be acclaimed as the greatest miler in American history. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
To be most effective, she felt, her actions must be seen as a response to an important national issue, not just a local controversy. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
The first was the failure of a major New York bank, Jay Cooke and Company, in September 1873, that set off a national depression. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
In fields, dells, and hollows, families terrified by what they read in the papers each day about the collapsing national economy nonetheless now began to think about Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
What will happen, they had said, if the president is still seriously ill when Congress re-adjourns in the fall or if a national emergency occurs? Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
It is more recent and is recognized in our national consciousness, but it is still not well understood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Of all these ways, none came to symbolize this national evasion of the anti-drinking laws more dramatically than a brand-new and illegal type of drinking establishment that replaced the closed-down once-legal saloons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
This wasn’t how a senior on the national team was supposed to perform. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
I switch back to the national news stations. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
In Denver three national banks failed in one day and pulled down an array of other businesses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
“I know about that,” Nixon said of the Ellsberg job, “and it is so involved with national security that I don’t want it opened up. Keep the hell out of it!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
They even handed over their wedding rings, which were replaced with copper bands that bore the national seal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Woven into the national identity of the US is the idea that the nation was created to be unlike any other nation on earth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
We should be able to predict which countries are best at math simply by looking at which national cultures place the highest emphasis on effort and hard work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Their mechanics took a record player with them as they moved from base to base; one of them, Sonya Tishurova, organized a group who performed national dances from different states in the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
The suffrage movement, while having made great progress at the state level, badly needed a dramatic happening at the national level if it was to succeed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Her case attracted national attention, but civil rights advocates declined to use her as a plaintiff because she got pregnant by an older man shortly after her arrest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Had not they locked arms together as “Publius” to justify the need for a national government with sovereign power over the states? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
We had missed our chance to become national heroes by helping our motherland. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Many supported the act’s main goal: to eliminate the drunkenness that had become a national problem and was destroying many families. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Like a lightning flash in the night, the initial exchange on the floor of Congress in February of 1790 had exposed these divisions of opinion before a national audience for the first time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
“Is another subject the national pastimes in Zambia?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
“I don’t feel very much like a national treasure.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Our manifesto stated: “We believe that the national liberation of Africans will be achieved by Africans themselves. . . . The Congress Youth League must be the brains-trust and power-station of the spirit of African nationalism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
To their south sprawled the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, where the empire’s rulers, as ruthless and preoccupied with national glory as so many Bismarcks, considered what to do with their soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
It was the first national women’s newspaper in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
He printed a notice from the defense authority telling Japanese nationals on San Piedro that as of December 14 they could no longer ride the ferries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
The playing of chess was considered more than just a national policy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She plays the first notes of the national anthem, and everyone sings as if we are at Fenway, shouting to fill the stadium. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
I had recently become national president of the Youth League, and in my new role I urged that the campaign should be exclusively African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Madison’s preferred location for the national capital was a “wigwam place” suitable for hunting parties and hermits. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Long-range planning and organization on a national scale are obviously essential. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
I also knew that the women’s national team members went to camp at the ranch every four to six weeks for skills training and assessments, known as verifications. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
On the campus, many students had come into contact with one of the early icons of a mobilization that seemed to be gaining national momentum. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The only thing that rivaled Americans’ fear of the Soviet Union’s incipient prowess in the heavens was their wounded national pride. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Each morning before classes began, we all lined up in the courtyard by grade, then recited the national anthem and the Lord’s Prayer. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
“I checked the national employee staffing schedules through the computer. Let's just say several of the Population Police got some unexpected days off.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
In both, royal family trees formed an intricate network across national boundaries, but in Mixteca the queen's lands stayed in her line—the king's heir wasn’t necessarily the queen’s heir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
People tend to get defensive when the integrity of their national sport is impugned. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Already, we were beginning to experience the pressures of a national campaign. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
That would likely earn them a chance to race against Navy and the elite eastern schools for the national freshman championship in Poughkeepsie in June. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Many parents liked what they saw in their children: the discipline, physical fitness, diligence, pursuit of excellence, pride in national heritage, and a sense of purpose. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
At the hanging of his friend, convicted killer Tom Horn, he made national headlines by stepping up to the gallows and belting out “Life’s Railway to Heaven.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The M-Plan was designed to allow the organization to recruit new members, respond to local and national problems, and maintain regular contact between the membership and the underground leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Male and female users typically reported that they are about an inch taller than the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
They might have called on teachers, might have demanded some kind of national literacy campaign for children of the poor—white and nonwhite—at the earliest levels of learning. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is a national organization, with overseas branches, whose purpose is to help those living in rural areas—and the children particularly—develop practical abilities and moral character. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Throughout the year, thousands of Muslims attend regional and national conventions throughout North America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He announced a nationwide stay-at-home on March 28, a national Day of Mourning and protest for the atrocities at Sharpeville. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If the national association has decided it is unwise to include the colored women, I think we should abide by its decision.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
After all, they were the national freshman champions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
I began to feel that something more than a national trophy case was needed if I was to be truly free, and for that I have the history department of Howard University to thank. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
I want to think tie is involved in some type of illegal drug operation that is about to be exposed, bringing national attention to Paintbrush Falls. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
Their accusers tended to be wealthier individuals who controlled local institutions or had ties to the national government, and were sometimes even the women’s landlords or employers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
I was like a boy who worships a local soccer hero and is not interested in a national soccer star with whom he has no connection. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Many, not yet changed into the Ihram garb, still wore their national dress. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
I felt as passionate about that as I did about my goal of making the US national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
In the patriotic euphoria of the first few days, women brought their jewels to the barracks to help finance the national reconstruction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was now official; I was one of the top four women’s saber fencers in the entire United States, earning me a spot on my first national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
An article written exclusively for the Saturday Evening Post after the bombing captured the president’s reaction this way: “President Kennedy, echoing the national temper, said he felt a ‘deep sense of outrage and grief.’” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular national park in America, but Gatlinburg—this is so unbelievable—is more popular than the park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
He told Rebecca he was going to build a national memorial engraved with the names of all the American casualties of the war right in the center of Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
As lawyers and national pundits became more prominent than clients and citizens, we isolated ourselves from the people who were our anchor and on whose behalf we had labored. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Meanwhile, eighty-five national and local organizations, and more than three hundred prominent individuals, signed on as sponsors of the “Freedom Concert,” as it was now called. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
“Just because I helped Ibtihaj get onto the national team doesn’t mean I’m done. Our work has just begun.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
My national ranking was steadily climbing, but I had yet to really break through on the international World Cup circuit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The national flags of Nepal and South Africa, along with banners from Kodak, Apple Computer, and other sponsors, flew from a pair of tall aluminum flagpoles. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
A disturbing example of the latter seems to be building up on the national wildlife refuges at Tule Lake and Lower Klamath, both in California. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
That he wouldn’t put his hand over his heart during the national anthem. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Will Kennedy’s wish of national desegregation ever come true now that he’s dead? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The women of the National Woman Suffrage Association invited her and other members of the Anti-Sixteenth Amendment Society to their national convention in 1872. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
As the plane began its descent over Boston Harbor, the pilot announced the weather and time, and that President Nixon had declared a national holiday: two American men had landed on the moon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
At the national conference of the ANC in December, the Youth League introduced a motion demanding the expulsion of all members of the Communist Party, but we were soundly defeated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The national colors of Brazil toppled into the army, squashing a dracaena. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
“Hillary is regarded as a living national treasure here in New Zealand,” says Atkinson. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Starting November 1, he became national sales manager for a broader range of the bank’s money management services than he had been selling. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
For many black people in the region, watching the evidence that we had presented in court now laid out on national television was therapeutic. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Our treasured and nostalgic picture of the village general store, the cracker-barrel store where an informed yeomanry gather to express opinions and formulate the national character, is very rapidly disappearing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whistles blew and a band played both the Brazilian and American national anthems. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
In response to the national turmoil, the all-white Detroit police force has been raiding after-hours bars in the city’s black neighborhoods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
The next day, the national press parroted the figures it had been fed by Strauss: “U.S. Eliminates 95% of Fall-Out from the H-Bomb,” the New York Times reported on its front page. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Or the decision to locate the national capital on the Potomac was a backroom deal involving so many secret bargains and bribes that no one would ever unravel the full story. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Legalistic debates over federal versus state sovereignty were just the most accessible handles to grab, the safest and most politically suitable ways to talk about alternative national visions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A lot of good actually came from me failing to make the national team my first time out. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Because many of Feldman’s customers are affiliated with national security, there may have been a patriotic element to this 9/11 Effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
And stop hearing the national anthem in my head. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
Chess Federation then had only three thousand members, no national program to promote chess or train children, and only one active grandmaster, Samuel Reshevsky. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The flaw in this plan was that there were really no feeble players in the tournament; they were all, if not world class, then at least of national or international renown. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
On Monday morning, September 26, religious services were held at the pavilion and attended by James Garfield's Ohio friends and family as well as by many national dignitaries. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
The provincial judge, seeing that he could get himself in a fix and might wind up on national television excoriated by the leftist press, promptly went on a fishing trip. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I told them the church’s story and why we thought the church should be considered for this national status. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The national news printed his mother's full statement decrying the violence that took her son's life, and demanding justice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The ridiculous story might have lived out a brief life in Columbia had the paper not put it out on the national wire, thinking it was the scoop of the season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the early 1980s, however, when the national government, dominated by northern Arabs, tried to impose Islamic laws on the entire nation, civil war broke out. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
The FBI holds a press conference at the site, corroborating hearsay that a passport found at the crater belonged to Kamal Aziz, an Egyptian national. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Every Christmas since, she sent my parents a gift box containing hot sauce, a flowering cactus, and a photograph of Mrs. Watson and herself in front of some national monument. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
The central players in the drama were not the marginal or peripheral figures, whose lives are more typical, but rather the political leaders at the center of the national story who wielded power. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But the key point is that the debate was not resolved so much as built into the fabric of our national identity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A heretofore quiescent problem was suddenly catapulted into the national consciousness. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
He had come to embody national authority so successfully that every attack on the government’s policies seemed to be an attack on him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Alice Paul’s Woman Suffrage Parade, however, would be the first national effort calling for a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The vuvv ship where the American teen art nationals will be held is glittering with lights. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
But the more historically correct reality was that no one quite knew what the Republican triumph meant in positive terms for the national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He was hailed as a national hero, promoted to the rank of captain by the Admiralty, paid handsomely to write an ac-count of his ordeal, and, in 1825, given command of a second Arctic expedition. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the entire national supply of copper had been requisitioned for other war needs, and not even Groves’s bullishness could overcome that cold fact. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“I am annoyed by Radio’s willingness to let this country be the laughing stock of Europe—at the same time when national prestige is no joke—rather than admit its hoax.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
Faith in mobility, after all, has been consciously woven into the national self-image. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
The fiscal goals Hamilton proposed were synonymous with the national vision Madison had advocated at the Constitutional Convention and in The Federalist Papers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I had decided that Karhide had never let any broadcasts concerning me be used on Orgota stations, but had tried to keep me a national secret. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
Minutes later the official results were announced: Ky Ebright and California had won their third consecutive national varsity title, by one-third of a second. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The others were welcomed back as national heroes. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
In the case of the national university, it was the recognition that the United States was still very much a nation in the making because its population was still a people in the making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
No explicit articulation of those assumptions had been necessary in a national forum before 1790, because no frontal assault on slavery had been made that required a direct or systematic response. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I even applied to Teach for America—the national teacher placement organization that places college graduates in needy schools in underserved communities. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He devoted a full two months to revising Washington’s draft, amplifying Madison’s earlier account of the need to rise above party differences and rally behind the elected representatives of the national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In my cross-examination of Mr. Barnard I first read the court the letter I sent requesting that the prime minister call a national convention for all South Africans to write a new nonracial constitution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
At the national team tryouts, the Czech soccer coaches might as well have told everyone born after midsummer that they should pack their bags and go home. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
It's going to make national news, soon enough, and I want to be there when it does. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The young women were “spellbound” when they found themselves face-to-face with their national hero, who personally invited them to join the others signing up at the Zhukovsky Academy meeting point. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
“God Save the King,” the American national anthem and the Russian “Internationale” were played. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
Tragic narratives of mothers killing their children were national sensations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
One act of resistance made the national news. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Besides the national anthem, I never knew so many songs were written about America. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
“Never was I so ashamed of our national capital before,” said Anna Howard Shaw. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
As sixth graders who were taking the test in the eighth month of the academic year, these students needed to achieve an average score of 6.8 to be considered up to national standards. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
An important strand of the national story runs through Durham and it involves two men who had a profound effect on the movement: Douglas E. Moore and Floyd B. McKissick. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
With a glance into the rearview mirror, Ben said, “So you think that Margo is on a national tour in search of various World’s Largest Balls?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
Alternatively, we may not offer any national financial support. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
Granted also that the place of slavery in the new national order had come up in several state ratifying conventions in 1788. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He could not believe that a dignified body of sober-minded legislators were allowing these “shaking Quakers” with their throbbing consciences to control the national agenda. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
By the standards of the national press, Bush said virtually nothing to those gathered at the airport in Midland, Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
I started the national anthem, but the priest waved his hand quickly in front of my chest. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
The two women had lived together 'on the far side of the campus in “The Cottage” a shingled bower that occupied a place in school mythology akin to Lincoln’s log cabin in national legend. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I couldn’t stand there forever, but I didn’t know how to interrupt a conversation about whether I was a threat to national security. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
After declaring his irreversible intention to retire, Washington devoted several paragraphs to the need for national unity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The change helped insulate agents from local corruption and created a truly national force, yet it also ignored regional difference and had the dehumanizing effect of constantly uprooting employees. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
In the days that followed, the shooting on the IRT caused a national sensation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Somewhere a radio was blaring Bangladesh’s national anthem. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z
I spoke to local and national TV channels, radio, and newspapers—I spoke out to anyone who would listen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
Sally was married and Max was drowned and his father was at home watching baseball on national TV. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Lawrence’s concern with the threat to national security from outside forces, specifically Communism, dated back to his earliest involvement with wartime research, when security issues deprived the Rad Lab of Rossi Lomanitz and Martin Kamen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In the Jeffersonian version of the story, Adams and Jefferson fought shoulder-to-shoulder against the Tories, served together in Europe as a dynamic team, then returned to serve again in the new national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I had made my first national team and would be representing the United States of America at the World Fencing Championships. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
A few of the younger boys seemed uneasy, but Chacho and Fidelito proclaimed Matt a national hero after the Keeper left. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
In Japan, sumo is not only the national sport but also a repository of the country’s religious, military, and historical emotion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
We wandered about all the way to the Cotton Tree, the national symbol of Sierra Leone and the landmark of the capital. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
The courts, local lawmen, and state and national troops all lined up against the union organizers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
It was crime that led the nightly news and the national conversation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Then Minerva began singing the national anthem, and everyone joined in, men and women. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
For millions of Americans, concerned that excess drinking of alcoholic beverages had become a national epidemic destroying thousands of families, it was indeed a cause for celebration. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
As long as I can remember, I’ve devoured stories of gymnasts who travel and compete internationally as part of the USA women’s national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Through persuasion he managed to get the majority of houses painted blue in time for the date of national independence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
In the end, a large national association stepped in and put pressure on the school district to let him attend. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
Franklin wanted to put slavery onto the national agenda before it was too late to take decisive action in accord with the principles of the Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
That is the most shocking greeting of all, because Birmingham is also known as the Johannesburg of America, the national bastion of apartheid. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
The bit about them basically says that local band Shooting Star is opening for Bikini on the Portland leg of Bikini’s national tour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
With six full suffrage states and two million female voters, there already existed a readymade voting bloc with the potential to influence state and national elections. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Speaking out more boldly than he had during the entire strike, he made a statement that would bring him national attention and acclaim. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The Reich Citizenship Law defined citizens to be any German national “of German or related blood” who “proves by his conduct that he is willing and fit to faithfully serve the German people and Reich.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
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