Sometimes in public, hearing a stranger, I’d hark back to my past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stung by the criticism from her father and husband, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stopped accepting invitations to public events and once again focused her attention on her family. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I'd like to sit down, but I'm not sure I want to plant my bare bottom on some public piece of university property. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but that I had also been charged with resisting arrest and public nuisance. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I'm out in public, but I am completely alone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud argument broke out in the public lounge between Tommy Forester and the dark-eyed man, whose name appeared to be Alum Bey. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

During his visits, reporters kept tabs on him, printing stories about his cowboy adventures in the newspaper, which kept him in the public eye. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She continued, “As of today, you are expelled from all Tangerine County public schools for the remainder of this academic year.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His topic, as always in public appearances, was life in Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"One last thing. In public, I want you by each other's side every minute," says Haymitch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the skill of public writing was gradually developed by the many classroom papers I had to compose. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the Ptolemies maintained a public library suggests that literacy was relatively widespread in the capital, at least among the Greeks. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It needs also to be said that they are unable to write to a public reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men who had invested in them were the subjects of cautionary tales, derision, and a fair measure of public loathing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considering the number of such devices that are in use, and the scarcity of warnings such as this, do we need to wonder why our public waters are contaminated? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The public wards at Hopkins were filled with patients, most of them black and unable to pay their medical bills. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The caption under the picture says: Elected by the people, unpaid for their services, and open to public criticism, board members must make the tough decisions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s friends and former Moton colleagues watched helplessly as their children’s futures were sacrificed in the battle over the future of Virginia’s public schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Those laws said whites and blacks should be separated in all public places: drinking fountains, parks, trains, buses, downtown food counters, and public schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Mary Louise Smith, the second teenager with the nerve to face down Jim Crow on a city bus, was, like Claudette, branded “unfit” to serve as the public face of a mass bus protest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There was no public transportation into or out of the colony. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With excessive care they continue today to note the difference between private and public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He accused certain governments, pharmaceutical companies, and public health policies of favoring the “maldistribution of medical technologies.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Only later did the alphabet’s easily learned vehicle of private communication become co-opted for public or bureaucratic purposes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even among the bilagaanaas, those words are not ones most people will say in public. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost led Nico to another public square, anchored at one end by a large square church with whitewashed walls and limestone arches. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But then the redheaded Avox girl comes in with a note from Effie saying that, given our recent tour, both she and Haymitch have agreed we can handle ourselves adequately in public. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you care for a hot dog? I extend the same courteous service to all colors and creeds. Paradise Vendors has been a pioneer in the field of public accommodations.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The public assistance, is that what you want, woman, the relief? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were committees for the press, radio, film, transportation, public art, and the budget, each charged with separate responsibilities for extracting the maximum propaganda value from the games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around the train and replied, “It is not the same as public transportation back home.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much of this was public relations, how much of it was Andre’s father’s influence and how much of it was my merit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the signs prohibiting Jews from entering public facilities had been taken down and stored for later use. 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 story about the murder of a New York City public school teacher, Jonathan Levin, by one or two former students who wanted money. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a more recent author and public figure whose work spoke to the core of a new set of issues I was struggling with: the Bronx’s own Colin Powell. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“This is volume three. And since Marysville’s public library is not so scrupulous as its historical society, this is the only volume that is missing any of its pages.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The announcement meant that nine of the state’s ten largest banking organizations now needed an aggregate sum of money from public and private sources well into the tens of billions to stay afloat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wallace’s plan for continued segregation in Alabama’s public schools and universities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But they likewise insist that bilingual instruction will give students a sense of their identity apart from the public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Del Mar, conscious of the potential conflict of interest for the Howards and Smiths, barred public wagering on the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A public brawl with guns out and thirty men packing? I don’t think so.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Adams correctly regarded the five-hundred-mile trek back to Quincy as his final exit from the public stage. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the public pep rally out at the stadium the Thursday before the quarterfinal showdown against the Arlington Lamar Vikings, Hix stood on the glittering field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s the difference between a healthy community and public housing. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though later cleared of any wrongdoing, he vowed never to accept public office again. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We would pay a small price, though; we could go to school as long as we kept ourselves covered in public. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and public housing if they have prior drug convictions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Du Bois’s view, Washington’s public statements arguing that poor education and bad choices were responsible for the plight of former slaves ignored the damage wrought by caste and threatened to rationalize the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Today we shall provide a much-needed public service,” Goddard told them, with far too much glee. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was not a man to show public affection on foreign soil. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t simply reason that as vulnerable as the Nation of Islam was to distorted rumors and outright lies, we needed nothing so little as to have our public spokesman constantly denying the rumors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that the public wanted more was a satisfaction to Charles, though it didn’t sell as quickly as that anonymous book, Vestiges, had done. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hear strangers on the radio and in the Mexican Catholic church across town speaking in Spanish, but I couldn’t really believe that Spanish was a public language, like English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could never, ever speak to them in public. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The two complaints were not helping the old firebrand Malcolm X image any, nor were they generating the local public interest that was badly needed by his small, young OAAU. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t ashamed of being seen with him in public? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Individual people don’t get to vote, but they do get to voice their concerns at the public forum before the vote.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A fellow newjack who bought Newjack the week it came out wrote, “It’s about time the public finds out about us. You tell the true story. Reading your book was like reading about myself.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, even child kings used to be thrashed until they learned not to cry at public meetings—as young as six months of age.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Bengal, men and women don't touch in public. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But by the turn of the century, lynchings were hardly the everyday occurrence that they are often considered in the public recollection. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His household effects and all his belongings were sold at public auction. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never informed upon a boy in the public school, and I was waiting for the boy in front of me to come to my aid, lying, making up excuses, anything. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no time to think about anything else—unless it’s raining and we gotta find another place to sleep than just the beach, like the public restroom. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That sounds about right. Angelina hated public bathrooms. She only lets people see what she wants them to see.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I hope you will publicize the fact that you made this plea . . . mainly because of the possibility of public opinion harmful to science,” he wrote Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Housing Authority was headed by a former cotton mill executive named Carvie Oldham, who ran public housing with the same autocratic and ruthless style that had marked his tenure in the mill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nazi doctors filmed the patients and produced short documentaries to convince the public that the patients’ lives were not worth living. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Either Kubat was engaging in wishful thinking or the statement was just a public relations smoke screen to give the match more credibility. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the protest movement reached into other segregated public facilities, such as theaters and motels, white resistance hardened. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to, because the presiding judge told me in bizarre language that I was to have my head cut off in a public square in the name of the French people. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Wes looked to his right, saw a public phone booth, and began to move in that direction. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As far as public opinion was concerned, the result of the raids was far more positive than even Palmer could have hoped for. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Although insect resistance is a matter of concern in agriculture and forestry, it is in the field of public health that the most serious apprehensions have been felt. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even so, it was impossible not to catch a glimpse of the headlines screaming by on marquees near the Tokyo Dome, broadcasting the news to the public. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Murder convictions tend to receive a tremendous amount of media attention, which feeds the public’s sense that violent crime is rampant and forever on the rise. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Mess is a giant characterless cafeteria, like you’d find in a public high school or a prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For the next five years, using the trailer park’s bathrooms and other public amenities, the Farmer family made the necessary adjustments that came with living in a bus. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Somehow I knew, however, that my words were meant for a public reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept imagining what it would be like to be back with my public school friends, going wild at football homecoming games, joining clubs, and finding dates for prom. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They saw, only too clearly, that Oldham was bent on re-creating in the public housing projects the world of the plantation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never stepped foot in any place that public, even if it was deserted. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up a Catholic at home and at school, in private and in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a public appearance, she would take me and the other man, a squat, burly college student named Eduardo Fermin, to scout out the area the day before. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Force them to make a public affirmation of the oaths sworn her father by the lords they served, and then call on them for succor, and her a woman, yes, that was sweet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

During Black History Month, Americans congratulate themselves for having put an end to discrimination against African Americans in employment, housing, public benefits, and public accommodations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The crime wave of the 1920s and 1930s, the great gangster era, increased public interest in prisons and punishment, and the interest of Hollywood in particular. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even by this means, Islam was on the march, but I knew that with improved public relations methods the number of new converts turning to Allah could be turned into millions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The call center is a cross between a co-ed college frat house and a phone bank raising money for the local public TV station. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry sniffed and a foul stench reached his nostrils, a mixture of old socks and the kind of public toilet no one seems to clean. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He released sincere public statements deploring the shooting and condemning it as evil. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The uneasiness precipitated by the mere thought of such public performance disordered my nerves to a great degree, and I felt fearful of most everything. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stone, who had had reservations about getting married in the first place, now faced the public humiliation of dealing with an unfaithful husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The weather will be nice, so I’ll be staying out of the public eye . . . and you can stay with me, if you’d like to.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a racy book about lowlife—Tobacco Road, for example—would catch the public fancy, but for a surprisingly long time middlebrow fiction in America was about upper-middle-class life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“For decades,” narrated the ceiling voice, “public libraries have proudly served America’s newest citizens—the immigrants who flock to these shores yearning for the freedom to build their own American dreams.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She bleakly wondered if there was any chance the children could be made ready for such an important and complicated public appearance in such a short time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Several letter writers complained that Orson Welles and his cohorts intentionally misled the public by naming actual towns, roads, and government agencies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The crew worked for Zero Fatalities, a public safety organization aimed at curbing automobile accidents and car-related injuries and deaths. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

She returned to Monroe County but secluded herself and was rarely seen in public. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was not able to know if my statement reached Nealson, but there was no public outcry against me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was the tide of public opinion slowly turning away from superstition and toward discovery? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She told me it was her job to do chores for the family, like caring for her little brother and fetching water each morning from the public fountain. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I think the public for a time will be awfully disappointed with our work—dissatisfied & a strong hand will be required here for weeks to come to prevent Ulrich’s energies from being wrongly directed.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They could be tossed out of public housing due to no fault of their own. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So instead we flew to him, for what would be a sort of attempt to have it both ways—a family day spent mostly in full view of the public. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘So he goes to a public phone, right?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a few minutes to realize that public high schools didn’t have men in suits watching their parking lots. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She shared Howard’s understanding of the importance of image and cheerfully joined him in the public eye. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed at his farm in Mentor, Ohio, and encouraged the public to come there to hear him speak. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As national heroes, cosmonauts were always in the public eye. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like Osborne, Lawes believed that increasing public knowledge of prisons could only be good. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long afterward, he told a colleague that “my superiors have bluntly told me that my name must not appear in the public press” for any reason whatsoever. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was a kid who’d failed freshman year at the regular public high school because she never showed up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

One of Alfred’s cousins and contemporaries, Henry Stimson, would distinguish himself in public service with one stint as secretary of state and two as secretary of war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Like the prison, this part of the Ice Court wasn’t intended for public eyes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the strike began, the US Senate Committee on Education and Labor began to investigate the walkout by holding public hearings. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Think that you are now to go out, before the largest and most honourable gallery that can be assembled, to make a public demonstration of your sin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual in times of military crisis, the public rallied around the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the public read about the incident, many shared the same regret and donated money to a fund for his defense. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The monthly court date was always a well-attended event, as it provided citizens with a forum to settle disputes, conduct all manner of legal transactions, and hold public auction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I feel Lucy is holding back. I know she’s new to public school. There are enormous pressures.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would take time to make photocopies, and the work obviously couldn’t be done in a public copy shop. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, passed by Congress as part of the War on Drugs, called for strict lease enforcement and eviction of public housing tenants who engage in criminal activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And yet Odysseus gazed out marvelling at the ships and harbors, public squares, and ramparts towering up with pointed palisades along the top. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under apartheid the government provided no public transportation for blacks, but white people still needed us to show up to mop their floors and clean their bathrooms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Whether public or private, accounting is a peculiar blend of facts and arbitrary procedures which usually require decoding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now was her chance to proclaim in public all the private anguish and purge herself of all that she had done wrong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They pretend that there is no difference between public and private life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew that after all the protests,” he later wrote, “American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What he deserved, I decided in that moment, was public humiliation and defeat. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could feel my heart rate starting to slow, and then it raced again as I heard him ask me, “You work in public relations, is that correct? Huntingdon Whitely?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who am I to disapprove? But if you pick up a guy in a public dance hall you’ve got to expect advances. He had the right to make a pass at you.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Catholic Church of my youth mediated with special grace between the public and private realms of my life, such was the extent of its faith in itself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would he become the public second son, free to go to town and to school and everywhere else that Matthew and Mark went? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

What mattered was his willingness to test that reasoning by clearly thought-out experiments, in public, and to stand by the results of the experiments—something that was still a novelty even in 1611. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with the space race nevertheless lived in its shadows, even within the black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At that time our church served as a concert hall, a public auditorium, and the gathering place for most African- American social events. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that separate public schools for whites and blacks were illegal? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is just as important to write books for the general public, for people of all ages and in all countries. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There should really be a law against making kids who are going through puberty undress in public. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Emergency laws added three hours to the workday and banned vacation days and public holidays. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The one ever scrutinizing into the public opinion, and ready to follow where he could not lead it; the other insulting it by the most adverse sentiments and pursuits. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We tracked both sides of the public land along Squaretail Brook, all the way down that hillside to where it runs into the Beal River.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Declining crime rates, coupled with a decline in public concern about crime, have also helped to create a rare opening for a productive public conversation about the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

USA Fencing had a woman in charge of public relations who often helped schedule interviews. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Nineteen sixty-eight. I was pondering an idea for a game at the old public library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Then he had fun writing the letters that were published by newspapers, and watching the public’s reaction. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was too far, and besides, Elkwallow Gap was a public place. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She added that some of what the public knew about the Doll Woman case was “Not True.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The jury’s lightning-quick decision showed that the public sentiment to hang Guiteau had sealed his fate even before the trial began. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All this was public knowledge and has been related by many a writer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they saw it, Elizebeth was helping to improve their public profile. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We visited the biggest public library building I’d ever seen, where I got a new library card and a stack of books. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As public attention shifted from the streets to the courtroom, the extraordinary grassroots movement that made civil rights legislation possible faded from public view. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had seen these women nearly every day of my life observing the code of purdah, where they cover themselves in public. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now that the location of the Jade Key was public knowledge, deciphering the Quatrain and figuring out how to obtain the key was relatively easy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Since then, basically, it’s only been a public service to me because they let me borrow as many movies as I want. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Calls flooded in for his resignation from the Republican ticket, and impolite members of the public took to waving placards speculating on whether or not his wife Pat wore a mink coat. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Netscape went public on August 9, 1995, and the world has not been the same since. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the mid-1990s, he points out, the city of Baltimore embarked on a highly publicized policy of dynamiting the old i96os-style public housing high-rises in East and West Baltimore. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea is so ridiculous to me that I can’t even imagine what it might feel like to hold someone’s hand in public. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Clarion reported that the police were angry the emails had gotten out to the public, as this was an ongoing investigation. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Jamaica had no public high schools or universities. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Reiterating that police had framed him as a part of a drive to oust Communists from Chicago, Erlone demanded that the charges upon which he had been originally held be made public. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The main source of relief from the heat for the kids in Welch was the public swimming pool, down by the railroad tracks near the Esso station. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Violet said, “You can see why I don’t take him out in public much.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

American government officials, the press, and the public expressed their disappointment with the delays, many impugning the agency’s judgment and competence. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The bus drove down into public housing and after everyone was picked up we headed toward Clark. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Inspector Bryant told us that. But you’re officially the San Francisco Police Department, and it doesn’t believe our unit is to the public benefit.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the controversy, an outside audit of Korean Air’s operations was leaked to the public. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his career Burnham found himself facing public attack. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The public had an ongoing interest in the picketers, they reasoned, and the editors believed that readers had the right to know what was going on. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I slumped into my train seat and turned to look out the window with my chin cradled in my hand, thinking back to when J.T. first came to public school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When radio broadcasts of recorded music began from 1920 onwards, public interest in having one’s own record collection accelerated; what had been a trickle turned into a flood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The same was true of the public cloakroom—a damp, slippery, dark place full of dripping coats, bags, hats, and gloves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My tiny entourage’s cheers faded as I continued down the main road toward my next stop and one of my favorite hangouts, the public library. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was a beaver house, called a beaver lodge in a special he’d seen on the public channel. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an undergraduate at Cornell, he started off as a public policy major. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But in this case, I think he’s saying I’m still dressed as the private Ashley, not the public one. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It also made the case for why a space program—and its enormous price tag—was in the interest of every American, offering four arguments for the publics consideration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Booth’s curiosity about public reaction to the assassination led him to make an additional request of Jones: Please bring some current Washington newspapers from the day Lincoln died or from today, the sixteenth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's no public restroom in here," the gardener said. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Yet many of the documents the state submitted and the speeches they transcribed were public documents, public speeches, information available to all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upper-class pastoral can admit envy for the intimate pleasures of rustic life as an arrogant way of reminding its listeners of their difference—their own public power and civic position. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rumors that had been filtering down the backstretch, whispered in confidence between dockers and horsemen, suddenly became noisy public accusations: Something is wrong with Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps no aspect of the HUD regulatory regime has been as controversial, however, as the “no-fault” clause contained in every public housing lease. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For months she refused to sing in public. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was embarrassed to have a girl yelling rudely at her across a public thoroughfare. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the spectacle of the hangings fades from the public’s preoccupation, Lincoln’s reputation grows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

From his PhD research on Korean pharmaceutical companies, Jim knew that the price of a drug to the public often had little to do with the costs of manufacturing or distributing it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

To add insult to injury, the FBI claimed in public that their success was due to their own code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

BJ’s closed to the public at eight p.m., and I got to my restock work. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Later on, when she found out that Arcadio had not only built a house but had ordered some Viennese furniture, she confirmed her suspicion that he was using public funds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Parents, students, citizens, school officials, and public officials of these areas met their responsibilities in a dignified, law-abiding way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To quiet the doubters, he gave his word that the public would be able to see Seabiscuit work a full ten furlongs—the race distance—at three-thirty on the afternoon of May 24. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm then did a curious thing which he always repeated whenever we met in public in a restaurant in New York or Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bagwell's public complaints made it hard for courts to appoint other civil lawyers for last-stage appeals in a death penalty case, not that they were particularly inclined to do so. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the vivid descriptions in the popular books by Lowell and his fervor in public lectures convinced millions of people for years to come that Mars was home to intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

"We're a public domain organization. There's no such thing as secret or secure information here." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

These revelations failed to inspire an outcry by the press or the public, and the committee presently ended its investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They are also routinely denied public housing and welfare benefits, and they find it increasingly difficult to obtain education, especially now that funding for public education has been hard-hit, due to exploding prison budgets. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They fear to swallow a great hoax in public, a hoax already refused by Karhide, a hoax perhaps even invented by Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the deal died now, there might be a public backlash against Belmont. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, during the day, I got an associate’s degree from Onondaga Community College and began work on a degree in public policy at Syracuse University. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Department of Justice and released several public reports about the problem, which received widespread media coverage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The public wasn't sure what the truth was. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It violated the core of virtue and disinterestedness presumed essential for anyone properly equipped to oversee public affairs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had never thought much about the “whites only” and “coloreds” signs posted above public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, funding that had once been used for public housing was being redirected to prison construction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just floated there, hanging on a little longer each time. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You have no choice. Supposing I were to make my facts public without proof. The evidence is circumstantial enough.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“But,” he added, with a hard edge of anger, “if you so much as spoke my words in public, do you know what would happen to you?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They also warned that terrorists might target evacuation routes, creating “mass panic” and “loss of public confidence in the government.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Back in our old quarters in the Training Center, I’m the one who suggests the public marriage proposal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that being out in public would keep me from being loud. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The deeply flawed nature of colorblindness, as a governing principle, is evidenced by the fact that the public consensus supporting mass incarceration is officially colorblind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After 27 hours of deliberation, Tison was convicted of two misdemeanors—disorderly conduct and discharge of a pistol near a public highway—and aggravated assault, the less severe of the two felonies. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We urge the public to contact us at the investigation hotline with any relevant tips or information. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The black community wanted the public housing units built in a different location, and virtually anywhere outside of the already overwhelmingly black section of Durham would have pleased them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such songs are not sung anymore in public, especially the ones that use words likefree. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was remarkable about the knowledge produced by the voyages of discovery was not just that it was indisputably new, nor that it was public. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No matter how friendly they are in public, no matter how firm their smiles, my parents never forget when they are in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Interstate Highway Act brought autobahns to the United States and became the largest public works project in the nation’s history, building 46,000 miles of road with more than $130 billion of federal money. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Guarding the girls’ privacy meant finding other ways to satiate the public’s curiosity about our family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Only a small minority are rearrested for violent crimes; the vast majority are rearrested for property offenses, drug offenses, and offenses against the public order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In public I expect most of the faces I meet to be the faces of strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As planned, Caesar constructed an annex to the public square known as the Forum. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Father is pleased as punch with Adah, I don’t care what he says—he put his arm around her shoulder in public! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brown threatened not only to abolish segregation in public schools, but also, by implication, the entire system of legalized discrimination in the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is only after she is behind her rope with one foot chained to a stake that the menagerie is opened to the public. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to ever read in public again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So White decided that he would be the public face of the investigation, while most of the agents operated undercover. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The great danger in the South comes precisely from the fact that the public is not informed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, all of Washington’s conservative message was immensely popular with whites, and not by coincidence, for his every public utterance was carefully crafted to appeal to two audiences. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the Harvard School of Public Health, Farmer had gotten used to hearing that public health problems should be solved with “appropriate technology.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The rest were either too distracted by their troubles or just plain unmotivated, so pretty much everyone grudgingly accepted some form of public aid. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, it’s public record, and it substantiates what you described. He told me that we should look at it”—Gay paused meaningfully—“before too long.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He hardly spoke Igbo, and although Jaja and I spoke it with Mama at home, he did not like us to speak it in public. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was answered by a man who, like myself, was in public relations. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped the public, though they might disagree with what he was saying, would still like the person who was saying it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was divided into private and public spaces. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama and Baba think I’m old enough to go to a big public school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And everywhere they went, Citra made a point to take a family picture...each from an angle very close to that of the nearest public camera. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham was allowed to go home after she promised to do a thousand hours of public service. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of five, six, well past the time when most other children no longer easily notice the difference between sounds uttered at home and words spoken in public, I had a different experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no reason to believe that the survey results would have been any different if police officers or prosecutors—rather than the general public—had been the respondents. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He held top sales jobs at four different technology companies that were ultimately sold or went public for more than a billion dollars each. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nixon was thrilled by the public’s positive response. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The rotund Ogden Morrow was naturally charismatic, and he handled all of the company’s business affairs and public relations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I had been stripped naked in public. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prep team to beautify me for public appearances. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ernest’s determination to keep on Groves’s good side showed in his muted response to an incident that outraged the physics community and inflamed public opinion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Though there had been no military reaction, there had been a public relations uproar in many foreign capitals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He did not yet put into words his obvious fury at the public humiliation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Factories, public enterprises, and neighborhoods have been ordered to produce two tons of toibee, according to Good Friends, a Buddhist charity with informants in North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

What’s more, he insisted, making the Pentagon Papers public was just plain wrong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Estraven when in power had never done so, and it was not in the Karhidish vein: their government was not a public performance, normally; it was covert and indirect. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the public part of the house, the only other luxury was the privy in a shed attached to the house; the Van Goghs didn’t have to walk outside to use the bathroom. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The public debate would inevitably turn to race, even if no one was explicitly talking about it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With school out and me not having access to Mrs. Conway’s cache of books, I rediscovered the George Bruce Branch of the public library on 125th Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We had to go to a village and do what sounded like public relations work. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the popularity of celebrity female aviators such as Amelia Earhart, the general public in the United States felt that women should not be flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Johnson’s public argument that the Maddox had been attacked—not once, but twice—was persuasive. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bridey Hannon told Mam that Mrs. Meagher is in a constant state of shame over the rags they wear and so desperate she goes down to the Dispensary for the public assistance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Beta versions. We’re releasing them to the public later this week.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In public health projects in difficult locales, theory often prevails over practice. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Two congressmen and future presidents, James Madison and James Monroe, would arrive after him and be compelled to sleep on wooden benches in the tavern’s public room! An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We were released provided we reported once a week to the police, and were forbidden from attending public gatherings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Senator Gravel asked for the unanimous consent of all subcommittee members to insert the rest of the Pentagon Papers into the public record. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Aw, they were driving around drunk. Making a nuisance of themselves on the public road. Hit a deer. Did you kill it?” he asked Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system in “disappearing” black men is surprisingly rare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has also spoken this in public, with fire and light in his eyes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my work for him was public—I taught in his school. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

How she had gone to the public library the other day, had forgotten to bring out the unreturned book from her handbag, and the guard told her, “You people never do anything right.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be methodical in putting together a larger plan, waiting until I had full confidence in what I was presenting before going public with any of it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We stopped at a public toilet, and I waited outside while Frankie went in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He went to New York City public schools in the 1940s, then to City College in upper Manhattan, and then to New York University Law School. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I went with him to college and university lectures, to radio and television stations for his broadcasts, and to public appearances in a variety of situations and locations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in a very public place, and I will need everyone to be in another room in order to check my email. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On May 15, 1796, Washington sent Hamilton the first draft” of a retirement address—no amount of persuasion could change his mind this time—that would announce his departure from public life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hot on the heels of these philanthropic, documentary-style recordings came those intended to part a paying public with their money. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

States would likely gravitate back to their old ways if a new, more compassionate public consensus about race had not been forged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After doing our turtle walk, Margaret had gone to her volunteer duties at the garden club, and Grandpa Izzy had gone to his at the public library. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he concluded, “But I flatter myself that some respect will be paid to the public interest, and to the plighted faith of the government.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Many college graduates were forced to work as cabbies or waitresses after graduation, but they retained the confidence of a public identity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On October 31, Orson Welles met with reporters, answering their questions and expressing his bewilderment over the public’s reaction to his show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They learned to shoot at a special firing range for scythes and apprentices, where weapons that were banned for public use were not only allowed, but encouraged. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Our daughters lived more deeply inside it than we did, in part because social media governed teen life and in part because their routines put them in closer contact with the public than ours did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Black leaders, including Ferdinand Barnett, concluded a two-day conference on the matter with a public statement calling on both the mayor and the governor to send in the soldiers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Jesuits had their public victory and all that remained was to pass sentence—life imprisonment. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the truth was—as Mr. Richardson recognized—that an angry Asian man didn’t fit the public’s expectations, and was therefore unnerving. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One type recognizes the importance of other proximate variables besides good institutions, such as public health, soil- and climate-imposed limits on agricultural productivity, and environmental fragility. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered for a minute if it was a public day and she was showing the rooms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Good grief, baby, people don’t agree with the Klan, but they certainly don’t try to prevent them from puttin’ on sheets and making fools of themselves in public.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was all part of a mysterious uncertainty about even the smallest item of public information about the old man. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me three hours and forty-one minutes to walk to Aaron Black, because public transportation makes me panicky, even though walking over bridges also makes me panicky. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Arlington Park officials made a point of warning the public that if it rained, Seabiscuit probably would be scratched. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was his last public appearance, you know? They canceled his show right after.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Former all-white public schools had opened their doors to black students, as had department stores, restaurants, lunch counters, swimming pools, libraries, and other private and tax-supported facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I mentioned, you will remember, how in a big city, a sizable organization can remain practically unknown, unless something happens that brings it to the general public’s attention. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no restaurants and lodges, no gift shops and hamburger stands, not even any paved roads or public phones. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I owe this progress report to Burt who had the bright idea that I could dictate this on a transistor tape recorder and have a public stenographer in Chicago type it up. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, I registered to teach in my own school district, but my mom informed me that I could make more money in the Newark public schools, despite its record number of failing and struggling institutions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even as the army was being disbanded, much to Adams’s credit and relief, the cost of raising it landed on the voting public. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By now, Ralph had no self-consciousness in public thinking but would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

If the very idea of virtue was no longer an ideal in American politics, then there was no place for him in public life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The third type of technology is the kind that is so effective that it seems to attract the least public notice; it has come to be taken for granted. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why does not one of the Commensals force the issue and speak of him in a public speech or on the radio? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Howard gave the press a banner headline; the press gave him the public. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Employees and even ex-employees were expected to keep a low public profile. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once I even went up to the third floor of the public library, hoping I might find Danny there. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Despite the complexity of their quest—or perhaps because of it—their work enthralled the public. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the public mind, this kind of technology has come to seem like the equivalent of the high technologies of the physical sciences. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they enter a separate society, a world hidden from public view, governed by a set of oppressive and discriminatory rules and laws that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ultimate answer is to use less toxic chemicals so that the public hazard from their misuse is greatly reduced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even before Strauss’s appointment was made public, he began moving against Oppenheimer, impelled by the physicist’s increasingly outspoken campaign for a public debate on nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was a genuinely clarifying public notice because it gave Southside residents a way to keep their memories alive and please the city legislators as well. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As May Day of 1936 approached, it was voted by the union membership that we should march in the public procession. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a terrible time to lose the confidence of the American public. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But, Brother Malcolm, there is something you need to know. You will grow to be hated when you become well known. Because usually people get jealous of public figures.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I searched online for his name, I found a website with a list of public defenders. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But it was the use of DDT, and its potential health risks to both animals and humans, that grabbed the public’s attention. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Performing Arts, the write-up said, was an academic, as opposed to a vocational, public school that trained students wishing to pursue a career in theater, music, and dance. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In this one, the focus was on American history—for a young nation, there was so much to educate the public about. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The wait from nine when the staff came until ten when the public came seemed long. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be allowed a phone call, would learn about the charges against him, might even see a public defender or a judge. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Our parents demanded that we behave appropriately at home and in public. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sorry for your troubles but you could go to the St. Vincent de Paul Society or get the public assistance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would be just the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, the contest of wills ended after officials agreed that if Bobby would play this time, they’d make the pairings in public the following year. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And discoveries that are never made public, or made public only long after they have been made, are not really discoveries at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In public, Washington railed against court challenges to Jim Crow laws. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the library’s demolition also meant that those of you who are now twelve years old have lived your entire lives without a public library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, for countless poor people, particularly racial minorities targeted by the drug war, public housing was no longer available, leaving many of them homeless—locked out not only of mainstream society, but their own homes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you allowed to use his name in public now?” she asked quickly, trying to keep them there for another minute or so. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ground floor of the hotel was a maze of public rooms, all of them named in gold letters on the doors. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

As of June 2001, there were nearly twenty thousand more black men in the Illinois state prison system than enrolled in the state’s public universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was also receiving daily written intelligence briefings, suddenly privy to the nation’s heavier secrets—the classified threats, quiet alliances, and covert operations about which the public remained largely unaware. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of the public area was filled with AT goods—T-shirts, postcards, bandannas, books, miscellaneous publications. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of people from Poland: Billy Pilgrim accidentally saw a Pole hanged in public, about three days after Billy got to Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then found a private place in one of the many public gardens scattered throughout Imre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Water, sewer systems, and other public services that supported the white areas of town frequently did not extend to the black areas. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She said the public doesn’t have to know about that. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Former juvenile offenders who had later become well-known public figures filed supporting documents, including very conservative politicians like former U.S. senator Alan Simpson from Wyoming. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The group found a gentile restaurant, then visited a public swimming pool. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We put up a sign to bring the mouse to the public’s attention. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” Alex tells her, “I’m trying to keep up a geopolitical public relations ruse here.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For my part, I’d become an expert at walking quickly and lowering my gaze when passing through public spaces, which helped keep things efficient. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Except Frank wouldn’t require me to place myself in a labeled box in a public place in order to hang out with me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Unless a group of little girls chanted some especially clever riddle, my mother, who distrusts people with public concerns, braggarts, went over to the quiet older girls with the dignified bows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wallace controlled where Alabama’s black people lived, where their children went to school, what public facilities they could and could not visit, and where—or if—they would receive hospital and medical care. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I quickly became a public figure within this Muslim world, regularly traveling to speak about my experiences as a minority member of Team USA. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I waited all day for more news, for the charges to be made public: kidnap, assault or worse. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base had refused to allow further testing on women astronaut candidates for fear that the public would think they advocated women in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on public transporation meant she was late for everything—for work, for open school nights, for picking us up whenever she had to. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt, it was hard to come to public terms with my mother’s past employment at Joe’s strip club, but confronting it made me feel a certain degree of freedom. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She went to a public library and asked the librarian how she could get a Shakespeare and a Bible for keeps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I might take public transit even if I wasn’t in love with it,” Sasha explained. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Police officers volunteer to read to students in public schools. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But,” he says, enunciating very slowly, “what about the collections that are not on public display?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She drives you home too, but she doesn’t even like talking to you in public.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Recent polls, an aide pointed out, showed that the public approved of the American commitment to support South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn’t show in public. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw was suddenly horrified to be found in her nightgown in public. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As aquatic weed killers in lakes and reservoirs they have made public waters unsuitable for drinking or even for swimming. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We heard no public apologies, few empathetic speeches from the white community. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A bit of common sense is overdue in public discussions about racial bias in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But he triumphed—managing, too, to emerge with his neck intact— and was launched as a public man. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

What upset Charles most about Vestiges was the huge public reaction to the book—both positive and negative. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One week later she got a corrected version back from Joseph Kelly, the head of public relations at Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This was the moment he had been scared of for so many years—his theory made public. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Media campaigns would be unleashed in an effort to overturn the punitive public consensus on race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Nicholas went to a strapped public grade school in a perilous neighborhood, Christopher is in the gifted program of a school she handpicked on the middle- class side of town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first people fought it as a public hazard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The publication of the Journal made his name among England’s reading public. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back into the vortex of the public eye. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We all knew that within the government, and not one of us told the press or the public,” Ellsberg said later. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

British newspapers splashed his face on their covers, making it impossible for him to show himself anywhere in public. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She began visiting patients at a local public hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There is no greater antidote to the public cynicism about the press than seeing the labor and thought and scrupulous care that go into producing a masterful piece of journalism. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To this day, any public displays of affection make me flinch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the following issue Arthur printed a public service advertisement urging islanders to buy war bonds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In just one week both of her sons had gone from success to failure, from public praise to public shame. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you belong to one of those weird religions? A cult? Is that why you can’t associate with other kids? Or go to public school? Or wear ordinary clothes?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

No one noticed; they worked for a public radio station, in the fund-raising department, and were surrounded by people who spent all day on the phone, soliciting pledges. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Elijah Karriem removed his own children from Detroit public schools, to start a nucleus of children in the University of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First, that grading is not an exact science. Second, this case has demonstrated amply the absurdity of setting grades by public hearing.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to realize that there was a difference between my mother’s public face and what she thought her world was and what was really going on. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And with the cutting off of people’s public aid and SSI, basically I don’t see any hope for the people around here. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cities differ from villages in their monumental public works, palaces of rulers, accumulation of capital from tribute or taxes, and concentration of people other than food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth admired the Grimkés’ courage to publish their work, but she was even more intrigued with their role as public speakers, because at the time, it was considered scandalous for women to speak in public. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

However, strategies have evolved, including lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., as the global economic crisis has diminished public funding. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It should require elaborate schemes hidden from the public to keep them from panicking. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He needed to attend fund-raiser after fundraiser just to remain a viable candidate for public office. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the background, church bells toll, warning the public to evacuate because the Martians are coming. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The remaining way for kleptocrats to gain public support is to construct an ideology or religion justifying kleptocracy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This year it will be a public affair, and since the Capitol will be throwing it, everyone in the whole district will have full bellies. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Has your mother taught you no shame—embracing in public? Who are you anyway?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

In January 1919, with public sentiment now stronger than ever in support of women’s right to the ballot, the NWP stepped up the pressure by introducing a new tactic it named “Watchfires of Freedom.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It never became a public park on the Agate Passage. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was because I used public language for most of the day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Understanding that the press, as the public’s proxy, was the most important agent in his campaign, Howard wouldn’t leave the reporters alone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked as a speech therapist for children, mostly freelancing in the public schools and then part-time at a speech and hearing clinic downtown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years before, Dad had convinced her parents, Rob and Diane, that public schools were little more than Government propaganda programs, and since then they had kept her at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had last had a holiday in 1948 when I was an untested lightweight in the ANC with few responsibilities beyond attending meetings in the Transvaal executive and addressing the odd public gathering. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the leading Whigs dined daily at the Queen, and one man after another stopped at their table to laugh over Merchant Lyte’s public discomfiture that morning in court. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strikes would open the public’s and the press’s eyes to the plight of America’s laborers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I suppose it wasn’t very public—the only people we could see were the fishermen mending their nets on the opposite shore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the police wouldn’t care about several missing boys and a single drowned one, maybe the public would. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Lend me your ears . . .” He had never spoken in public before, and found it very difficult to express what he wanted to say. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Being my friend’s, I have no right to expose it in any degree to the public eye, but perhaps you may not dislike looking at it.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The Priestley letter was “a confidential communication” that was “never meant to trouble the public mind.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a subsequent paragraph, Terryl observed that the Utah public schools have a class on distracted driving in their driver’s education class. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Court ruled in 2002 that, under federal law, public housing tenants can be evicted regardless of whether they had knowledge of or participated in alleged criminal activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

White people, terrified for their lives, fled from their homes, locked themselves up in public buildings, hid in the woods, and some even left the state. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could work together,” said Allen, “but we could not go to school together, or go to the movies together. We couldn’t do anything in public together.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One day she came to visit the campus and was in a public bathroom when a student approached her and said, “Are you Sandra's mom?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One thing I have witnessed is that public life can change people unrecognizably in a few short years.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

For years, the president had been telling the public how well things were going in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To her, such matters are private and should not be settled before a public hungry for entertainment. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen hundred people were lined up at the foot of the building’s white marble steps, hoping to get one of fewer than two hundred seats available to the public. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Let’s get on with it. Since the township cannot make payment in full at this time, then in accordance with public statute, the aforementioned tract of land is now open for public bids.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alexander Haig couldn't admit it in public in case the Soviet Union sided with Argentina, but even Ronald Reagan was on our side. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“As I say, it’s a matter of public record. There were several newspaper stories at the time. You know he was an explorer?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the class took their seats at the conclusion of the patriotic hymn, Asher remained standing to make his public apology as was required. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Shady. The statute is clear. As of October first, if the town doesn’t buy the land, it becomes available for public sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many donors had never had the opportunity to make a public statement for Civil Rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had nearly perfect pitch for Washington’s language, having begun his public career drafting letters and memoranda for Washington’s signature as a staff officer during the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was being interviewed on public radio for a story about foraging. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They rarely spoke; the father said public things to her in the same tone of voice he used with his sons-in-law. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Judge Harry Lemley of Hope, Arkansas, had been named to hear the Little Rock School Board petition asking for a postponement of integration for public schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The bedrooms are never shown to the public,” she said, “only the hall and the gallery, and the rooms below.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The rest of us are all right with a little affection in public.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Him and my stepmom are just embarrassed to be seen in public with me in my normal clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After the potter’s field and Bush Hill cemeteries were full, they took over the public square nearest Bush Hill and began burying paupers there. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Time cover story, an all-purpose certification of celebrity in that era, enhanced Ernest’s fame among the lay public, which was happy to offer unsolicited advice and criticism to the brilliant young American scientist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t matter that much to us what the public thought.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Of all the crazy ladies, she was the one who was the village idiot, the public one. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt Erin would want to be seen in public with us,” Stephanie said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Only when I was with them in public would I grow alert to their accents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheryl Moody is a public school girl who works in a dreary mall job to earn money for college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the time Momma and Dad don’t like arguing in public but Momma was real hot. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was that I had never sat in a public garden before, had not even known it to be something that I’d want to do. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Today, no less than fifty years ago, a flawed public consensus lies at the core of the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A notice inviting public comment on that proposed new law would be published in the Federal Register in October 1973, just a few months after Hsu called Day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They came home from that expedition, however, to unanticipated public criticism from Sir Edmund Hillary, who decried Hall’s role in the growing commercialization of Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although the public was told that Roosevelt’s injuries were minor—a slight bruising—in reality, his left leg was severely bruised. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But as with the reception of ideas of global warming or evolution in our own time, it was not always serious people who dominated public discussion of such issues. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The mass mystified me for being a public and a private event. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were also committed to extensive affirmative action measures in both the private and public sectors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I see. However, where Shady makes his alleged concoctions doesn’t change the fact that this land is now up for public sale. So, if you’ll return to your seat...” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

That first day, gray drapes covered the large glass windows that separated them from the public. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The passersby recognized Bobby: He’d become the most famous man in Iceland and was remembered not for his public venom toward America but for putting Iceland on the map in 1972. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled a plump tight little smile, and for a moment his private face and public mask were one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The whites-only swimming pool in Leeds remained open during those long, hot days when most neighboring cities had closed their public pools. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she’s the only one of the hornets who goes to the public middle school like we do. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He recalled what Hades had said about this public square, where the Inquisition had burned hundreds of people alive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Faculty members were understandably troubled, though most seemed unwilling to make their concern public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jews were no longer allowed to use the library or attend public events. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The article speculated that the stewards’ “secret investigation” may have revealed “the identity of the race figure who gave Woolf his orders,” but that the officials were not telling the public. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, he knew the American public would be vehemently against putting even more American lives at risk by sending in several hundred thousand more American troops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Movies is all pretend. They’re made in California, you know. But they prove a point. Make something seem real, and people will believe it. The public will swallow anything.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The public defender stood back and indicated Digger’s mom. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lawrence left no public statement about his views of the affair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Now my public duties are finished,” I said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Warden attended yet another public auction and purchased two more vehicles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

People convicted of ardent leadership in the Nazi Party were banned from public office. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Matching the silence I started hearing in public was a new quiet at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christened the Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition, Fischer’s team removed 5,000 pounds of trash from the mountain—which was very good for the landscape and turned out to be even better public relations. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A former teacher in Newport News’s public schools, he had taken the Newsome Park job after being fired for joining what was one of the most bitter and contentious of all of Virginia’s teacher-pay-equalization lawsuits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"No you don't, Papi, they're private!" his daughters chimed in, crowding around him, wanting to spare each other the embarrassment of having their gushing made public. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It was a private journey as much as a public one. He was searching for his personal essence as much as he was making a political statement.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Here and there we have dramatic evidence of the presence of these chemicals in our streams and even in public water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a Thursday afternoon in early June, the school year nearly over, and they are at the public swimming pool. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not just a respectable grocer or dry cleaner or doctor, but a larger public figure who was willing to speak and act outside the tight sphere of his family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s going to be a public trial and sentencing this weekend. On Saturday,” the leader continued. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Course not! He never said a word about that. Well, he wouldn’t go blabbing about that in a public bar, would he?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After I started the public policy program in September, I still felt disconnected. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hardly any-body could tell you the name of a city councilman, or a county commissioner, or the head of the public works department, or the planning department, or the fire department. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the public beach the bathing suits were hot pink and yellow. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or more likely, it has become so unfashionable to discriminate against certain groups that all but the most insensitive people take pains to at least appear fair-minded, at least in public. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But it served his purpose of getting prison reform on the public agenda and strengthening his hand for the next phase of his campaign. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed what was necessary was to mobilize thousands to make their case in the court of public opinion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Scientists who studied psychology and the effects of radio were interested in the public’s reaction to the broadcast, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A public service, is what he called it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

This view, however, was not the one presented to the reading public in newspapers and books. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In defeat, Adlai Stevenson had succeeded in placing nuclear testing policy solidly on the public agenda. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It also gave the public the freedom and opportunity to talk about Malcolm out loud, as opposed to in the murmured huddles that reflected the climate of tbe previous generation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their expanded powers permitted them to knock on anyone’s door to pursue an accusation and for random inspections as well, in the name of public safety. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Early in the 1950s black community leaders in the South began to organize boycotts of concerts and public events that imposed segregated seating. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I do not make my parents’ sharp distinction between public and private life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why draw public attention to the “worst” of the black community, those labeled criminals? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even at that point, in 1957, the Food and Drug Administration could not instantly rescind the tolerance which allowed residues of a known carcinogen to contaminate food consumed by the public. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“One other thing. Participation in the highway cleanup counts as public service, which always looks good on a college application.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

This is the essential context for grasping Washington’s motives for leaving public office in 1796. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On Fridays she takes Gogol to the public library for children’s story hour. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I’m out in the public hallways, what private languages am I not hearing? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The public bus after school is crowded, and someone’s been eating too much garlic. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Similarly, there were no online databases to search, or field guides to borrow from public libraries. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And, not long afterwards, he told her she had an interview at an office in downtown Baltimore, for a position in public relations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even public failure, for then you’re guaranteed a greater audience for your eventual rising. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Paranoid got tacked on about a year later, after I verbally attacked a librarian for trying to hand me propaganda pamphlets for an underground Communist force operating out of the basement of the public library. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Five minutes doesn’t sound like a whole lot, unless you hate public speaking. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Even within states, different public school districts have different rules about how many days you can miss.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the city, everywhere outdoors was public, but she hadn’t seen another human face for days. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She dug into the diaper bag and pulled out a burp cloth and a big sheetlike thing that looped around her neck that she used when nursing in public. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Miss Love shook her head at Grandpa like a mother trying to shush a child in public, but he chose not to notice. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Although newspaper headlines and articles were optimistic, the public wasn't getting the whole story. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our entire public performance will be staged outside on what Effie refers to as the verandah, the tiled expanse between the front doors and the stairs that’s shaded by a roof supported by columns. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even his own vice president, John Adams, conceded that Washington seemed dazed and wholly scripted at certain public ceremonies, like an actor reading his lines or an aging athlete going through the motions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For Ulbrickson, there was one overriding, and dark, fact to be confronted: he had failed again to make good on his public promises. 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 a public toilet now, nothing in it but human waste and rubble. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a large collection of books belonging to Justice Strauss. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Might Martian microorganisms returned to Earth pose a public health hazard? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the gasoline rationing and the public transport strike, she had unearthed this childhood toy from the basement as her only means of getting around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb said she wouldn’t keep the information on a public computer. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

According to my Trail Guide there was public parking at the old iron works, so there must be a road out. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I was still sitting on the floor in a bathroom stall in a public high school, I was still crazy, and my hair still looked like I’d dunked my head in a tank of ketchup. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was a luxury for the relatively well-off, often arranged at short notice in an informal manner, as ‘public’ as a ball at Bath’s Assembly Rooms might have been. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Zoology Department is throwing itself open to the public, to give people a crack at Science and improve their minds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like Farmer, the priest believed in liberation theology as a “powerful rebuke to the hiding of poverty,” and he worked diligently to bring public awareness to the plight of rural Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We don’t know anything about this public hall or how a trial and sentencing works here. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She explained that she was still not familiar with seeing women “act in a public capacity.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sentiment: Expresses the living conditions of Confederate soldiers and the public, as the war was lost. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Her awareness of life’s perils convinced her that while I would be safe on the public conveyances, she “wasn’t about to trust a taxi driver with her baby.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he should continue to act, in public, as if I were a large vase or a window: part of the background, inanimate or transparent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed profoundly unlikely, but the idea was out there, in public, and the sophomore boys already had begun to talk quietly about it among themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The public didn’t know whether they wanted him caught or not. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the possibility of escaping public words, the possibility that awaits me in meeting the intimate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His example was seen as “a turning point in terms of public sympathy in Selma,” said Chestnut. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a lieutenant colonel in public relations in Baltimore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Make only polite small talk in the public market. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder if that’s the kind of place this is—where dissent can be expressed in public, in the middle of a normal conversation, instead of in secret spaces, with hushed voices. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Every school day, before Jack put on his navy blue uniform and walked to his public school, his mother insisted he eat a big breakfast. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The public was impressed, and the FBI came out of the war stronger than ever. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

How would the acquisition and control of this knowledge—and its inevitable invasion of our private and public lives—alter the way we imagine our societies, our children, and ourselves? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The villagers grew calmer, thinking themselves fortunate not to have been tempted by the Devil and then found out in so public a fashion. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember the feeling that the great public gardens, the long lunches, might all be undone by a physics, cousin to our rules and the reckoning of our own country, that we do not fully comprehend. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He tells Mam at last that she can have the public assistance but if she gets a single penny from her husband she’s to drop all claims and give the money back to the Dispensary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I said that I imagined the Cubans liked his published attacks on American policy in Latin America, his admiration of Cuban public health and medicine, and his efforts to create connections between Cuba and Harvard. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After those arrests, a local circuit court judge, James A. Hare, issued an injunction forbidding public gatherings of more than three people. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

So his parents took him out of public school and, at the beginning of seventh grade, sent him to Lakeside, a private school that catered to Seattle’s elite families. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Plus, the Lemoncello Library had been closed to the public for a week. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the public outcry was so great, the governor called the superintendent and told him to start up the football program again, school or no school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Specific tactics included motorcades, parades, banners, billboards, transcontinental automobile trips, and speaking tours—all designed to educate the public about why women deserved the vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The taboo against women speaking in public did not apply in Quaker meetings, where women were encouraged to speak freely. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Smyth was a former chairman of the Princeton physics department who had authored an official history of the bomb program released to the public following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town on public buildings to frighten the others away; ornithologists said that it wouldn’t work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was for the public and it was filled with knowledge. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But this would be Mr. Muhammad’s and my last public appearance together. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Mammachi’s time, Paravans, like other Untouchables, were not allowed to walk on public roads, not allowed to cover their upper bodies, not allowed to carry umbrellas. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an embarrassed police department and Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, saw that they were losing the battle to youngsters, things started getting nasty. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once Burr extended his demands to cover their entire public careers, and then also refused to recognize the traditional distinction between personal and political criticism, Hamilton was truly trapped. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Garfield’s assassination by a disgruntled job seeker spurred the public into demanding an end to the spoils system of hiring government employees. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There is no set itinerary that is public knowledge. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And why were the town leaders interfering with news the public had every right to know? Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

One weekend a few months after he’d moved, I heard on my car radio that a vicious blizzard had hit Chicago, closing the airports, shutting down public transit, stranding cars on highways. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I can never prove it, not in a court of law, not even in the public eye. But I know in my heart why that man fired his gun that day.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The prevailing public consensus affects everyone, including civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite the care Severo took to hush all speculation, Rosa’s death became a public scandal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief’s hut looked like any other hut, there were no bureaucrats or public works, the chief redistributed most goods he received back to the commoners, and land was controlled by the community. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But questions of this sort inflame the public mind. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At a public access terminal in a Miami library, she found a cheap apartment and paid the deposit electronically. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He likes the idea of detective work, of working to serve and protect the public. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And you were such a wonderful ambassador for our public schools, Jake. I’m so disappointed.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The horse meant financial rescue, the ability to meet his responsibilities as father and husband, professional redemption, and the end of a long, public humiliation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get on the radio, there had to be hard evidence that the public liked him—and the evidence just wasn’t there. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to write political messages in public was punished with a burst of machine-gun fire on the spot. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best decision Nana ever made was taking me out of public school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel the same twinge of painful embarrassment I sometimes felt when I saw my people in service positions in public places. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suggestion was firmly rejected, a sergeant informing Mr. Muckle that handcuffing a bunch of middle- school kids wouldn’t be good for the public safety department’s image. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I became a public relations man for General Electric in Schenectady, New York, and a volunteer fireman in the village of Alplaus, where I bought my first home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By universal agreement among school officials, it had been decided not to disclose the location of the coin toss to the public. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This difference in public attitudes has important implications for reform efforts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

An elegant public relations agent, Grumette conducted a regular chess salon in her home, which players paid to attend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hours before Seabiscuit was to undertake his public workout, Howard and Smith retreated to the cottage by the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sometimes think Jonah and Isaac need a dose of reality, that a couple years in public school would have shown them something different,” Croteau said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Would they dare to stop me physically in this public place? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Better information has led to later reduction or withdrawal of the tolerance, but only after the public has been exposed to admittedly dangerous levels of the chemical for months or years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Holding down city expenditures was deemed more important at the time than public health. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

My profile is public because I don’t care if some stranger stumbles onto it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, not too long ago crying in public would have had out you out the window.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thus in the late 1960s and early 1970s, two schools of thought were offered to the general public regarding race, poverty, and the social order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the only part of the city that maintained a curfew; after sunset, it was closed to the public. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"Not in public. If I begin to feel daunted I'll go off by myself. I'm like a cat that way." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

To prevent the virus from spreading, the library where Elizebeth worked had shut down for four weeks, and people were required to wear masks in public places. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Being seen with either of your parents in public is pretty gay. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This would be tantamount to retiring from public life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The public was invited to attend and watch. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’s been in the public eye since his mom became the favored 2016 nominee, the White House Trio the administration’s door to the teen and twenty-something demographic almost as long. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Yet it must, as a final step, be shared by the public in order for the birth to be successful. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord had led him, said Father James, looking down on the boy and girl before him, to give them a public warning before it was too late. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Middle-class supporters of public bilingualism toy with the confusion of those Americans who cannot speak standard English as well as they can. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There really is no public transportation to get there, and it’s too far to walk. We need to get someone to drive us.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I try to avoid public restrooms except in emergencies, but if I do need to go, I disinfect the toilet seat. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the hush-hush 1940s, such a public display of mental illness would have spelled the end of Blanche’s career at Langley, even if she had been able to recover from the episode. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The logs were ignited at long distance through a trifling diversion of the energy beam that fed the public buildings of the city. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Jefferson was also careful never to utter any of his criticisms of Washington in public. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His training as a waiter had polished his public persona. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Burdened with a number of small unmanageable packages and unabashed public adulation, he felt obliged to perform. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his view, it was a flawed public consensus—not merely flawed policy—that was at the root of racial oppression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Arthur was given the oath in a short public ceremony at the Capitol by U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why do so many people—capable of delivering whole paragraphs of coherent argument in one-on-one conversation—falter when asked to speak in public? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It read “People who care about their teachers, their children’s education, their city’s future, want open public schools.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new law requires the public school system to abandon any programs that involve bilingual students. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Overwhelming evidence of continuing atrocities inside the North’s labor camps has done little to rouse the South Korean public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He couldn't sit out in the plaza and talk—there aren't any plazas here, and if you sit out in public some gang driving by might use you for target practice. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consider asking where they got the money for a house, but I know better than to talk about money in public. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In the months before the election, in her speeches and at public appearances, Susan B. Anthony had encouraged women nationwide to “seize their rights to go to the polls and vote.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although it was a private place, with an opening closed to the public, once inside you could do what you pleased: disrupt things, rummage, touch and move. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these modern sources there often emerges an understanding, among professionals and among the scientifically literate public, of something we might call the ‘consensus in the field’ on many issues. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That she never sing in public had been one of the general’s conditions when they had married. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is at once something private and public by its very nature and texture. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And her mother needed burying, though I didn’t relish another trip back to the public square. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maxim had to go up to London at the end of June to some public dinner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew he could lose both his jobs if someone identified his girl-child participating in a public Civil Rights march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As ground and surface waters are contaminated with pesticides and other chemicals, there is danger that not only poisonous but also cancer-producing substances are being introduced into public water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Riddle felt the sting of his public excoriation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At an awkward seventeen, a bunch of facial piercings, a biohazard neck tattoo, and what his father calls “weed-whacked hair,” the general public isn’t melted anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The problem was woven into every aspect of family life, from the high price of fresh fruits to widespread cuts in funding for sports and rec programs in public schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron joined a number of oddly dressed men descending into what appeared to be an ordinary underground public toilet, tiled in grimy black and white. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing to keep a public display of affection for...Edward, but I can never bring myself to get rid of it. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Anthony gave her first public speech to two hundred people at a Daughters of Temperance meeting on March 2, 1849. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that they had nothing; they were so poor that they were depending upon public charity to eat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At public events, I focused on making personal connections with the people I met, in small groups and in crowds of thousands, in backstage chats and harried rope lines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was early and the zoo hadn’t opened yet to the public. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her words and artwork told fascinating, intertwined stories to a public still highly suspicious of insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At no other time in Christina’s life will she escort her best friend, now a suspected traitor, to a public interrogation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His last public appearance was at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shostakovich was denounced by the Soviet Composers’ Union, and then came a deluge of public criticism - even from former friends and colleagues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This institution, which contained only about one-tenth the number of volumes in the Museum, seems to have been dedicated to public use. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Been twelve years since they tore down the old one. Listen to this, boys: Dr. Yanina Zinchenko, the new public library’s head librarian, promises that ‘patrons will be surprised’ by what they find inside.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I thought he was making most of them up until I looked in an astronomy book at the public library. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Phrases jumped out at him: hasn’t been seen in public since November. . . house appears deserted. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He subsequently moved to Venice, which soon became as obsessed with opera as it had traditionally been with carnivals, and the world’s first public opera house, San Cassiano, opened there in 1637. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was the first time some of my own people were saying a public thanks to us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he was excessively trusting of some of his speculator friends; and he only fired his assistant in the Treasury Department, William Duer, after Duer’s mixing of personal and public funds reached criminal proportions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The priest was blessed with a long, incriminating finger, which he used to point out sinners in public, and a tongue well schooled in arousing emotions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Fulbright was having serious doubts about being the one to release top secret documents to the public. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be surprised that the leader of Candor is this forthright, but I wasn’t expecting a public announcement. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Murray would continue his campaign for a test ban in public appearances and congressional testimony, but now he was on the outside looking in. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We loitered boisterously and we loitered in public. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We found what turned out to be one of the last buses out of Tembisa, for the police were quarantining the ghetto, barring all company vehicles and public transportation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if it’s public yet,” he said, “though it will be soon anyway, but Julian Albans is not coming back to Beecher Prep next year.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone was there, except Willie, who was looking for work in Milwaukee, and Nicholas, who was in the public library reading up on contracts and music royalties to get a record deal. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The youthful writer addresses a stranger, the Other, with ‘Dear Diary’ and tries to give public expression to what is intensely, privately felt. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the defendants became local heroes and public martyrs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And that afternoon she seemed to accept the idea, granted me the right, the freedom so crucial to adulthood, to become a person very different in public from the person I am at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manager of the furnace company—his name was never made public—decided to attend to the matter personally and met Holmes at his building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They met in the little public park across the street from Mercy Hospital. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pretty rough-and-ready himself and had no problems taking me out in public. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the few public and business offices that I had visited in Umtata and Fort Hare, the typists had always been white and male. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hot, quiet tears dribbled down my cheeks in a steady flow, like the faucet at the public fountain. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I expected that we would go into a TV-style courtroom, but we went from a public hallway to a private one and then into a corporate-style conference room with a polished table in the middle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He said he hadn’t kept me out of the public school for all these years just to see me corrupted on a stage. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For me there were none of the gradations between public and private society so normal to a maturing child. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never performed one of my nonhymn songs in public before. Much less at the high school Christmas talent competition in front of six hundred people, most of whom hate me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The laws prevented Jews from using public parks, swimming pools, concert halls, and transportation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could do anything: order me to the stocks, another branding, or a public whipping of hundreds of lashes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medical men and even the general public were becoming aware that the human environment was inhabited by an enormous number of microorganisms capable of causing disease, just as today carcinogens pervade our surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a job that promised to exercise my talent for public speaking, and if the pay was anything at all it would be more than I had now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep the public informed, Brown arranged a solution with reporters. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But it seemed as if he had violated some sacred public trust. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the height of his popularity, some 70 percent of the American public believed he was doing an outstanding job of rooting out secret Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In public, Katherine Goble was unfailingly gracious, optimistic, and unflappable, and she insisted that her girls acquit themselves in the same fashion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She also felt this was personal— she had lost her daughter, and she wanted to grieve in a less public way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

While in England, one of the male delegates confronted Mott and urged her not to attend the conference, explaining that women were “constitutionally unfit for public meetings with men.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My parents’ humiliation at this very public display must be gnawing at them like a vulture picking flesh off bone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In public, she didn’t want to say why. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the great public prayer of the mass would go on. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least not as a professor at any school that receives public funding. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Two years, nine months, seven days, and two hours after Fixers are approved for public use, the world experiences its first full day without a single death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The public was frightened and felt powerless to act against the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Baltimore Plot taught Lincoln a powerful lesson about public perception. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the public baths, they would look for the beautiful girls and tell their sons to go calling at their houses. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had bright lights over him; his right side was facing the public. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, the city’s only public high school taught laboratory employees everything from sewing to dynamic model design, bookkeeping to machine shop theory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Though by law public schools were open to all, many whites were not happy about their children being educated side by side with blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You did go to public school, didn’t you?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But if the public schools he attended had not offered arts instruction, he believed, he would not have fulfilled his potential. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They worshipped figures in Staff God poses, lived in networks of vertical exchange, and had public architecture with designs based on templates from the coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but this is far too public a forum.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And, the other: when I had read enough to know something, I began to enter the Prison Colony’s weekly debating program—my baptism into public speaking. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time, he became a good public speaker, even feeling at ease making presentations before the city council. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, August 12, just four days after he and Codman arrived in Chicago, Olmsted filed a report with the exposition directors, who then to his chagrin made the report public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But one need not oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds to feel shaken by the notion of a private sadness being converted into a public good. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

‘Yeah, man, I go to a public college, nothing big and fancy—” ‘To, college is college and thass all that maras.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One recommended improvements to the public health office, while another suggested that the fever had been imported from the West Indies by French immigrants. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When you have such a public role and so many people counting on you, I believe you must always act in the way people expect of you. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I personally was awed by her efficiency, a skill clearly forged by necessity over a lifetime in the public eye. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Baba spoke in a low voice, the one he took on whenever I embarrassed him in public. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had read that he had faced up to other Southern segregationists and forced them to let my people run for public office. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get into the best schools, but spent so much time studying on his own at the public library in Moscow that he was given a job as a schoolteacher. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second and much smaller genome is of the DNA in mitochondria; it was mapped, to little public notice, in 1981. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By now we are fully accustomed to the false public proclamations of politicians themselves. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But it’s not all that useful for, say, a group of people trying to spark a literacy epidemic with a small budget and one hour of programming on public television. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That caution and secrecy kept many spy stories from ever being made public. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her teacher said that Emily hadn’t gone out in public a lot and that her poems were never read when she was alive. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was old-fashioned enough that he believed he needed proper intellectual training and expertise before he could serve the public. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that when my letter became public knowledge back in America, many would be astounded—loved ones, friends, and enemies alike. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one gave you a public lashing for it, but those Afghans who did drink did so in private, out of respect. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This didn’t, however, stop him from telling my mother a preliminary half-truth, letting her know about the girl but saying they were going to meet in the public park. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You want me to swab out toilets while you run your old daddy for Oldest Settler and your nephew for public speaker. Or did my ears deceive me?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If she stayed on the streets. I dont reckon she’d be playing out of school just to do something she could do in public,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that anyone would ever see the tattoo, for scythes are never seen in public without their robes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

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

Attending the Brooklyn public schools was also problematic. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true—I stream my plays live, when I’m actually linked in under my public Warcross account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Is it fair to say that, as compared to talking on a cell phone or driving under the influence, the general public hasn’t had information about the risks of texting and driving?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the tide of chemicals born of the Industrial Age has arisen to engulf our environment, a drastic change has come about in the nature of the most serious public health problems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She felt somehow humiliated by this public revolt in her area of jurisdiction. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that the Arabs are poor at understanding the psychology of non-Arabs and the importance of public relations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of particular interest to a brainy, idealistic youth such as Farmer, Virchow helped define the field of medical anthropology—the study of human health and disease and public health care systems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Within an hour after arriving in Shali- mar, a young man had tried to kill him in public. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Harvard, I could study law while pursuing a graduate degree in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, which appealed to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When she arrived at the auditorium with a friend, black educator Mary McLeod Bethune, she was told that blacks and whites were not allowed to sit together at public gatherings in Birmingham. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

By extending a low platform from one side, they created a stage for priests to perform ceremonies in full view of the public. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But she decided she missed being in public school with her friends and reenrolled there for eleventh grade. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“To not make them public would be a dereliction of duty and morality.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Necessity spurred technological innovations that offered the public unprecedented access to its heroes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When will the public become sufficiently aware of the facts to demand such action? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

International public opinion, he said, is sometimes worth more than a fleet of jet fighters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a dress for a girl more confident than I am, who doesn’t feel insecure about eating whatever she wants in public. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As it becomes a public expression, the ghetto idiom loses its sound—its message of public separateness and strident intimacy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t an IRT train, and I don’t take public transportation.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of those dots is the mother of public enemy number one, I think when I hear a faint wailing behind me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the same line, Shin saw his uncle’s crimes: disruption of public peace, acts of brutality, and defection to the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I convinced Emma to take a turn around the fire with me, and though I was usually shy about dancing in public, this time I let myself go. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I had never seen so many black men angry in public before, and yet others passed the gathering by without even a glance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was always saying stuff like, “If the public only knew what the government was up to, there would be a revolution!” and pumping her spotted, wrinkled fist in the air. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hence archaeology in Japan is supported by astronomically large budgets and draws public attention to a degree inconceivable anywhere else in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon himself was not seen in public as often as once in a fortnight. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

There his words went unbroadcasted and almost unnoticed, until AEC commissioner Willard Libby issued a public riposte that served chiefly to bring Schweitzer’s statement to Americans’ attention despite the blackout. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In his public school, nuns and priests taught the Catholic prayers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, by 1951, when Henrietta Lacks’s cells began growing in the Gey lab—just five years after the widely publicized “death” of Carrel’s chicken heart—the public image of immortal cells was tarnished. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise looked around at a sea of perplexed faces; she could spot guilty parties easily on public occasions, but she was met with blank astonishment on all sides. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

One of the stranger effects of fame, Elizebeth discovered, was that the public started writing to you. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the public’s view, Lincoln's killing had been a rare event, perpetrated by Confederates enraged about the South's defeat in the Civil War and fearful of Lincoln's actions in the aftermath. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Papa was not one to make a scene in public. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He told my mom that the weeds in the public gutter along the front of our property had grown too high. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The public address system blared a slow number, and counting systematically to herself, Jean Louise danced through it with only one mistake. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time, life was regularized, with division of labor and communal efforts, such as defense and public works projects. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

The veteran couples never did anything showy in public, going about in a sensible sort of way, like a mother and father might do in a normal family. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily something like this—fighting in public—would embarrass me, but I barely even notice anyone except Daniel. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tents and cardboard shelters lined the streets, and the public parks I saw seemed to have been converted into refugee camps. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He said Caroline’s class was one of Satan’s deceptions, like the public school, because it claimed to be one thing when really it was another. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To help the family, he established a fund for Lucretia to which the public was invited to donate. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Quickly I check out public transportation, and find out I’ll need to take three buses in order to make it to Rhiannon’s town. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The petition served to draw Lawrence and Teller back into the public debate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A criminal record today authorizes precisely the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind—discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The private sector,” said Wood, “the public sector. You know. There’s a lot of interplay these days.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks were brick as were many of the houses and public buildings. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout most of our nation’s history—from the days of the abolitionist movement through the Civil Rights Movement—racial justice advocacy has generally revolved around grassroots organizing and the strategic mobilization of public opinion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I got dressed and rushed out of my room to leave for the public forum. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Siberian city had several huge public buildings, monuments from World War II, a reputable university and medical school, and some factories that provided decent jobs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Those copies will be released in a very public manner if this package doesn’t make it through all of you. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Because we’re juveniles, she said, as long as the suicide didn’t occur in a public place with witnesses, they probably wouldn’t report it in the news. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We need public information about what is happening every day to our farm animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most of my neighborhood friends were attending public schools in the area; a few were attending Catholic school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Would my public high school allow me to miss so many days of school? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She moved closer and she saw that the book was from the Bakersfield public library and it was called Understanding Vietnamese Customs and Traditions. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Board of Education decision, the law called for the desegregation of all-white public schools as well. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The real public school system, the one run by the government, had been an underfunded, overcrowded train wreck for decades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His house was opened and the public was invited to visit what they called “the dictator’s palace.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alabama state troopers surrounded Wallace as he made his defiant stand against desegregation in Alabama’s all-white public schools. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the madrigals they still teach children on very hot afternoons in public schools. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So when he took over the public schools, his allegiance lay more with schoolchildren and their families than with teachers and their union. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sam also had an educated perspective on food and health issues, namely how the food industry marketed processed foods to families in the name of convenience and how that was having severe public health consequences. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yet our nation’s public defender system is woefully inadequate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The writer is freed from the obligation of finding an auditor in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy would have my hide if he saw me dancing like that in public. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I took the test for Hudson, a selective public school in Manhattan. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His public defender stood beside him, lifted a legal pad full of notes, and cleared his throat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were coming up on the main public library, with the big marble lions flanking the steps. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I spent the evening at the public library looking at microfilms of the El Paso Times. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It really scared me, him talking that way, in public, with guards all around and anybody a spy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It makes me feel like I’m not invisible, but not in a bad way like when people sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in public and you want to drop through the floor. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I think you should have one of the journalists write about this. This is clearly something that the public should know about.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lake took a public stand against any sort of compromise, saying that the state should close its public schools rather than desegregate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She is extremely close with her mother, a teacher in the Trenton public schools, and her father, a social worker and published poet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a job that promised to exercise my talent for public speaking, and if the pay was anything at all it would be more than I had now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are speaking now the way we never speak out in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans who might have been philosophically inclined to oppose the Klan had now been given enough specific information to oppose them more actively, and public sentiment began to shift. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Open to the public, the Marshall Library was also being certified for the storage of classified documents. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But here and there, interspersed among the desolate shells of the heavy old public buildings, I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The practices of intra-family relations lay the foundation for the public manifestation of color prejudice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Before he could influence global policy, however, he knew he’d have to demonstrate his approach to effective public health care in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Burkhart’s testimony finally made public what the Osage had long known: members of the tribe had been systematically killed with intentionally contaminated alcohol. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like I’m supposed to be thankful to go to the public school where I’ve always gone, in the town where I’ve always lived. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He did not wish to bear the spectacle of a trial that would put him on public display for the amusement of the press and curiosity seekers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided he needed to go public about the calls and to respond to the charges of selling out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have not been able to stop my mother’s screams in public libraries or over telephones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time Mudgett described this encounter in his memoir, he was sitting in a prison cell hoping to engineer a swell of public sympathy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She called the welfare department to have the family’s public assistance cut off, and then reported the violation to the Housing Authority, starting the eviction process. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In response there was a huge outcry from small organic farmers and the public. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I approached her cautiously in case Viola had told her of my apparently shameful public experiment, but there was no special alarm in her eyes. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Eight days after the inauguration, Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in a public park in Chicago, not far from her school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Through all of this, the press and public remained obsessed with Carrel’s immortal chicken heart. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice, like so many of the Spanish voices I’d hear in public, recalled the golden age of my youth. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are they letting her speak in public now? What in the world does the title of this ludicrous lecture mean?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How dare you present such abortions to the public.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Nazis came to power, they took control of the public schools, called National Schools. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And now I realize why Daddy doesn’t want me taking public transportation alone. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a big moment, for sure—grand and public and to this day readily findable on YouTube. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They never had to make this fabrication a matter of public record, however: their letter to Bloom accusing him of this deed did the trick—he finally dropped out of the fight as if poleaxed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But companies whipped up prejudice against unions, painting workers as communists, and strikers lost public support. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I had been in town, trying to trade some threadbare old baby clothes of Prim's in the public market, but there were no takers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the time he declared this new war, less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The community invests in John so that he can one day return and teach African American children who are barred from attending the public school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The space for father’s name, of course, was left blank, but the clerk had assured her that they’d be able to find the correct document even without it, that the certificates were public record. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The march through town would begin at five thirty p.m., approximately the same time Rashad had been arrested for petty theft, resisting arrest, and public nuisance—whatever the hell that meant. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He took piano lessons and had a public recital. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A public whipping's a rare thing in District 12, although occasionally one occurs. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Howard was worth millions, lived in supreme luxury, and enjoyed the devotion of friends and the admiration of the public. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The committee issued a public warning, telling recent arrivals to clean their homes thoroughly, burn gunpowder to purify the air, dump lime down their privies, and whitewash every room. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The chapel is open to the public day and night, and on holidays. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

During this period, Nixon called for a “war on drugs”—an announcement that proved largely rhetorical as he declared illegal drugs “public enemy number one” without proposing dramatic shifts in drug policy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later, it helped me overcome my doubts and vulnerabilities enough to trust that if I allowed my family to live an extremely public life, we’d manage to stay safe and also happy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a flattering bow, courtly without being ridiculously formal, and safe for a public setting such as this. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An accurate picture emerged only in 1954, when Norris Bradbury was granted permission to counter Teller’s public charges that Los Alamos had dragged its feet on the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Normally, a case that is sub judice cannot be commented upon in public or in the press. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the local public schools continue to fail the refugee population—and American students as well. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

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 so it happens that three times a day, Marlena and I sit across from each other, strangely alone in the most public of places. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“They performed a great public service in showing the people who did become frightened that they should not be so gullible.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then there had been the silence that always followed any compromising mention of the regime in public. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas hated that his link to Ben was being made public—hated the responsibility he felt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It is a scandal when the public learns they have broken the rules, but no rules need be broken for the systematic mass incarceration of people of color to proceed unabated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He thought of every lawyer, every judge, every public official with whose name he was familiar—but the thought of each one of these white men was bitter in his heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I ever hear either tune being played in some public place I am sure I will immediately start to howl. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The Conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and family morality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There seemed to me something intrinsically public about written words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be just enough to give a hint, a small peek, to the public of what would be involved. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

You sense that offstage, out of public view, he is lonely. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Fearing the worst, the debased tlatoani made a begging public appearance on behalf of the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We were outside, standing on a patch of lawn off to one side, out of sight of the public but with a beautiful, close-up view of the White House, lit up in pride. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Throughout the morning equipment for the Winter Carnival had been spirited out of the dormitory and down to the small incomplete public park on the bank of the Naguamsett River. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The extraordinarily high rates of poverty, crime, and unemployment in Chester intersected with the worst-ranked public school system among Pennsylvania's 501 districts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This made no sense—couldn't he switch to a public one? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Cole’s father had refused to pay additional legal fees, and now a public defender would be assigned. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The public schools in town are pretty diverse, but there have been plenty of times in my life when I’ve been the only Black girl in a situation. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In recent winters, frozen human waste has been chipped out of public toilets in cities and towns across the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Two decades later, in Batson, the Supreme Court reversed course, a nod to the newly minted public consensus that explicit race discrimination is an affront to American values. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Night after night, the three boys left the flyers in apartment buildings, mailboxes, telephone booths, and other public places. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which is perfect timing from every angle: the enchiladas Scoob and G’ma stopped for are ready to make a swift exit, and there’s no public toilet for him to use. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The stadium also housed the only public library in the township. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is Los Angeles; I’m used to seeing signs in public places with instructions in multiple languages. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She could only sit on one side, cushioned by pillows, and something strange must have happened to her way of walking, for she never walked again in public. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had suffered a public physical assault by two white Communists with black Communists looking on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I watch channel thirteen. What you think, only kids and white people watch public television?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now, four months into his term as sheriff, he faced a seemingly unsolvable murder and intense public pressure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He and Prokofiev were both mercifully spared the treatment accorded writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose criticisms of Soviet authority in his books and public statements landed him in a Siberian prison camp. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I hate to break it to you guys, but I’m homeless and logged in from a public terminal right now too,” I said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Several afternoons a week, after public elementary school let out, I fed them healthy snacks and ran around with them on the lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But her words accompanied me, and although I didn’t doubt her, it was hard to picture my parents fighting in public. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

When before he would sit her down at marked, though irregular, times, now he tests her constantly, but never in public. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The village itself has courtyards and public squares. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This, of course, was 1969, in a public school on the South Side of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Later, Mr. Muhammad said that any whites who wanted to hear the truth could attend our public rallies, until a small separate section for whites was filled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of my former students now worked with the public defender's office in New Orleans, and they, too, had come to court and were cheering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You would have to prove that to the government and the public, so why not prove it to me now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was warm now, and she would be crossing a shadeless expanse of grass, broken by straight asphalt paths and public shelters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I still wanted her to say, Yes, at school, where things will be different, where I will be your friend in public, and also decidedly single, but she just said, “Yeah, or whenever.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

So, real fast, I say, "But it's a good thing—because now I have to wear clothes out in public again. You were right last night—two negatives make a positive!" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This trespass meant that no one must go inside the property because it was not public like a park, but private. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Obsessed by the way it determined my public identity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit may have been a public and media darling in the West, but in the prestigious eastern racing circles he still wasn’t taken seriously. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, going public with a clue became known as “pulling a Pendergast.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the response from the public was instantaneous. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably the same women who gave my parents grief for sending us to public school instead of a private Islamic school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was also a public event, the beginning of a process whereby new knowledge, in opposition to the old culture of secrecy, established its legitimacy within a public arena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When you look at the concentration of public housing in Chicago there’s nothing like it anywhere else in America. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the moment, the American public and its political leadership were indifferent to these concerns. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For those two afternoons, the Tillermans could go off to a park or a public beach after they had completed the morning chores, or after Maybeth had returned from church with Cousin Eunice. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

With support from the city, as well as Birmingham’s black and white businesses, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute* opened its doors to the public in 1992. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Oddly, there was little of the easy conversation one generally hears in public rest rooms, none of the laughter and “woofing.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It ought to be possible,” Kennedy continued, “for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The media bonanza inspired by the administration’s campaign solidified in the public imagination the image of the black drug criminal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was her public face the mortician had designed with his dubious art. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had met her several weeks before at a White House reception open to the public. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He points out the “quad” and the “field house” and refers to the “Ivies” and the “public Ivies,” where all these newbies will ultimately matriculate. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The fact that chemicals may play a role similar to radiation has scarcely dawned on the public mind, nor on the minds of most medical or scientific workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fazlullah had set up a public court to enforce his edicts, and his men were now flogging or killing policemen, government officials, and other men and women who disobeyed him. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the day the public experiment was to be carried out Galileo’s rival failed to show up. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The secretary of war wished the Booth situation to be handled with as little public outcry as possible, and this meant forbidding a public funeral. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though no one bathes in it anymore, not in public. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city’s public swimming pool had also desegregated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They rode in the back of public buses, sat in the balconies of segregated movie theaters and swam at segregated beaches. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a device is not only a hazard to the person using the hose; it is also a public menace. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Buses, both public and school, grumbling and screeching, smoke billowing from the tailpipes. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

That is the rationale behind the American Heritage Dictionary’s Usage Panel: two hundred authors, journalists, editors, scholars, and other public figures whose writing shows that they choose their words with care. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I got free of his pawing, which of course was having some effect on me, and left him, suggesting that he try the public kemmerhouse next door. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not in public, muffin,” she said in a drippy voice. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

What began to trouble Madison, then terrify him, was not Hamilton’s goal—the recovery of public credit—but the way he proposed to reach it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Catholic high school cost a lot, and Papa said nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Invisible Empire eventually foundered, however, after an outraged public demanded that Congress crush the group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As public education expanded in the South, North Carolina legislators proved adept at giving blacks equal educational opportunities on paper while funneling most state resources to white students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the public debate shifted focus from segregation to crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Emma wasn’t sure if it was because he’d had to claim in public that he liked lima beans, or if he was afraid someone else in the school office would overhear their secret code word. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Until the suit is filed and the courts rule on it,” said Mrs. Brewer, “public employees will have to sign or not sign as they see fit.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gross features of the fair envisioned in the plan concealed a billion smaller obstacles that the public and most of the exposition’s own directors had no idea existed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Like others who know the pain of public alienation, we transformed the knowledge of our public separateness and made it consoling—the reminder of intimacy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Books considered un-German were blacklisted and yanked from school and public libraries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When, in the time of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, we refer to a ‘public’ concert, it is not in the modern sense of a gathering open to absolutely anyone, for the price of a ticket. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She said that it shouldn't be too hard to get, because the tape was part of the public record. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked the Visit Room with Colton, wearing the dress blues that officers had to put on for any post that brought them into contact with the general public. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he held back on telling the members of his Klavern about his plan to go public, C.P. did convince several other men to join him in regularly harassing black protesters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he did plan to take public responsibility for the leak. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mom would raise a massive stink, and I would never be able to show my face in public again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“She’s getting better,” I said, as if by repeating it enough, I could somehow make it part of the public record, an indisputable fact. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

People experienced a sense of invulnerability and well-being by attending rap sessions, outdoor flute concerts; enjoyed having an official excuse to compare nightmares or break down in public. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The black community posed the question in private and in public, and with every possible inflection: rhetorically, angrily, incredulously, hopefully. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Never before had I been in a public place or hotel where there was no color bar. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In public, by contrast, full individuality is achieved, paradoxically, by those who are able to consider themselves members of the crowd. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The man ought to be in jail. He’s a menace to the public health.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The other form of rebellion consists of public violations of The Maids’ code of decorum. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer, like his predecessor Morphy, the nineteenth-century American prodigy, wasn’t especially prolific when it came to writing about chess, so the public greedily awaited each word he produced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They had their chance to buy the property. Now it’s up for public sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When there were still no arrests several months later, the whispers became louder, and public criticisms of the police, sheriff, and local prosecutor were aired in the local newspaper and on local radio stations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The public read about his diet: milk and rum; toast softened in milk; slivers of woodcock-breast meat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The three made their way down a series of hidden paths and public roads, Booth riding, the others on foot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Scythe Faraday always reviewed his notes on his chosen subject and used public transportation, Scythe Curie had an old-school sports car that required substantial skill to drive—especially on a winding mountain road. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She stole her dad's savings account information, went to the public library, used the Internet, and transferred four thousand dollars into the account she had used at college. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He wonders what the most mind-numbingly wholesome public figure on earth could possibly have to hide. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Estranged from her family, pregnant by a man she could not be seen with in public, she was alone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As the city’s principal public hospital, Cook County was the place of last resort for the hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans without health insurance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Board of Education, civil rights activists used direct-action tactics in an effort to force reluctant Southern states to desegregate public facilities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the barrio or ghetto child can retain his separateness even while being publicly educated, then it is almost possible to believe that there is no private cost to be paid for public success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, efforts by protest leaders to influence public opinion were beginning to pay off. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is why chiefdoms devote so much collected tribute to constructing temples and other public works, which serve as centers of the official religion and visible signs of the chief’s power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was he a villain for stealing secrets and undermining the government’s ability to protect the public? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My body jerked as I remembered how awful my last public speech had gone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The New York City public schools of the 1940s were considered the best schools in the country,” says Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who has written widely on the city’s educational history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the sound of their feet pounding until, finally, they slowed to a stop outside the public restrooms. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"I've read all the ones that are in the public library in the High Street, Miss Honey." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Protestants were public about their spiritual lives in a way that I, as a Catholic schoolboy, could never have been. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The balconies and the rear half of the main floor were filled with black people of the general public. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you just read the quarterly public water reports, as she had, the numbers were right there. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

No one now jumped from any windows, but in New York City there was an instant avalanche of public reaction. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leave Rani's tree behind and visit the public bathroom. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The condemned man on public display—the guy who had KOed Cap, and tackled him before that. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The silence—driven by stigma and fear of shame—results in a repression of public thought, a collective denial of lived experience. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was in the 1950s, after racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And yet, away from public view, one of the largest concentrations of professional female mathematicians in the United States stayed on the job, their identities wedded to their professions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What I did not believe was that I could speak a single public language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may be an advocate for free speech and human rights in public, but with my brother, I admit, I can be a dictator! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A squat public bathroom stood in the corner, surrounded by a chain-link fence. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like the very rich who live behind tall walls, my mother and father are always mindful of the line separating public from private life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I stared up at him, not recognizing him, and felt my face flush with the embarrassment of being a public spectacle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hers became the public voice of the family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I argued that police could improve public safety without abusing people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The publication of Baker’s memoir provoked a great public demand for Stanton to produce the diary. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Of course Freak has probably already guessed I'm a learning disabled, because he's had a look around my room and it isn't exactly the public library. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama was in no shape for public transportation, and I felt rather shaky myself. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Congress, like the American public, wanted nothing more to do with the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The general public had little voice in matters of art and therefore could not challenge the judgment of the expert few. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught me I should never do anything in private that I didn’t want talked about in public, and cautioned me to not talk in my sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba, ever fearful of public ridicule, opted for a solution that would not provide material for malicious tongues, because he knew that his wife’s strange behavior was the target of local gossips. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was terrible at tennis, but she liked to take me up to the public courts and swing and miss and laugh at herself. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Civil rights leaders are quick to assure the public that when we reach a colorblind nirvana, race consciousness will no longer be necessary or appropriate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the shift in attitude and in public responsibility at the laboratory were as distinct in character as the golden age of aeronautics of the 1950s would be from the space-age 1960s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

These private comments were more often far more expressive than those his reticent public persona allowed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The A & P? The one on the same block where the Aguilar public library is? No kidding?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Howard knew that to get his automobiles into the public eye, he had to get his name into the press. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uneducated and barely able to speak English, he was terribly poor, and the family was on public assistance much of the time. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose Mr. de Winter keeps the most beautiful room to show to the public,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It took Barksdale only a second to ponder that before shooting back with the right answer: “The day Netscape went public!” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The entertainers duped people by interrupting a musical program with newsflashes, which the public had come to trust. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had become a public symbol of rebellion and struggle; Walter operated behind the scenes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When public trials were happening she had taken her place in the detachments ffom the Youth League who surrounded the courts from morning to night, chanting at intervals “Death to the traitors!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He turned the Klan’s secrecy against itself by making its private information public; he converted heretofore precious knowledge into ammunition for mockery. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These early villages had wattle-and- daub houses, fine pottery, and some public architecture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I accepted the censure, and thereafter faithfully defended the policy of nonviolence in public. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another Louisiana man, Johnny Lee Ball, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after meeting with a public defender for just eleven minutes before trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had confessed and death loomed now for certain in a public future. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Upon her return to Manhattan, Sandy Pittman found that she’d become a lightning rod for a great deal of public anger over what had happened on Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s public info. My dad gets stuff like that all the time.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s public knowledge. It’s not my problem you just found out,” his mother is saying, pacing double-time down a West Wing corridor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And she never felt comfortable as the center of a public controversy. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“They’re freedom fighters. They wouldn’t let the Government brainwash their kids in them public schools, so the Feds came after them.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally dismantled the Jim Crow system of discrimination in public accommodations, employment, voting, education, and federally financed activities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Factories, mines, land, houses, transport—everything had been taken away from them; and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the third were students who were unlikely to ever play professionally and who intended to be music teachers in the public school system. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It makes him wonder if public office might be in his future once he gets fired for helping all these people. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So she picked up one of the strips of paper and read it aloud, first in English: “Do not fight and air your dirty laundry in public. To the victor go the soils.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Berg, she wrote that “the human story behind these cells would be of great interest to the public.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Farmville, the town that Dorothy left behind in the 1940s, had become in the 1950s a microcosm of Americas struggle over integration in its public schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The terms sounded in public to remind me in private of the truth: I was not—in a cultural sense—a minority, an alien from public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would never complain in public about my fashion dilemmas, but I felt perfectly okay pouring out my frustrations to my brother on one of our regular weekly phone calls. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be able to hear everything. It’s a public place—what are they going to do? We also have a code word, right?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Once, at the public picnic grounds, a small girl had tried to beat him to death with her enormous teddy bear. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Alexander tracked the progress of 650 first graders from the Baltimore public school system, looking at how they scored on a widely used math- and reading-skills exam called the California Achievement Test. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“To the world we always seem to agree and uniformly reflect each other. Like husband and wife, each has the feeling that we must have no differences in public.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Publicity, of course, tends to obscure these numbers, but like the Surgeon General’s warning on cigarette packages, the figures would eventually begin to filter into the public consciousness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji and every kid in public school seemed to be taught that you were good at something. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, every other day or so, usually in some public place, they would flash the badge to search me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talent contests and megalomaniac record producers have always paired ingenue wannabes with experienced songwriters, for instance, cashing in quickly on success before the public's appetite for novelty fades. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And he promised to work toward fulfilling the other demands—a city council proclamation honoring King’s memory and the cancellation of public school on the day of King’s funeral. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Years before, the Supreme Court had issued a massive desegregation order for our nation, demanding all public facilities be opened up to everyone, black and white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a public service announcement on advising women to see their doctors and take care of themselves while they were pregnant. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their display of white anger got so loud, so public, that Grandma wouldn't allow Conrad to play outside alone for any reason. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

First Jackson and then Smith were also prepared with their response, which turned out to be the fullest public exposition of the proslavery position yet presented in the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Without exaggeration, UOCI’s Patrick Wallace called her the “leading spokesman for the poor in terms of problems with public and private housing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They propose bilingual schooling as a way of helping students acquire the skills of the classroom crucial for public success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is, in intention, a public mockery of our credulity, our gullibility, our stupidity—engineered, with incredible impudence, by this person who stands here before us today. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rode through the Central Plaza and the large Auditorium where public meetings were held. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Good guys didn’t make other people cry on public benches. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thousands from Orleans Parish Prison, including those who were in jail for public intoxication, shoplifting, and other misdemeanors, had been left on the city’s Broad Street overpass for three days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They pursued that glimmering American phantasm called Justice by attacking legalized discrimination in voting, in public accommodations, and in schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the public—and especially the public in Shaker Heights—was deeply invested in the Mirabelle McCullough case now, and this, unlike the intern scandal, felt deadly serious. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As for Blanca, I didn’t want to think too much about her, for I might have broken down and started crying in public, embarrassing the hell out of myself. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was not one who enjoyed public exposure or ridicule. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The public pressure on the Howard barn was enormous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were two of the public’s favorite space adventurers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dangerously, they romanticize public separateness and they trivialize the dilemma of the socially disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai saw a kind of logic to this one: it was the adults’ way of keeping the little children from using a public walkway as a toilet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Members of the con-gregation made public confessions of sin, while people off camera shouted, ‘Hallelujah, sister! Hallelujah, brother, preach it!’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his first major public speech that wasn’t a church sermon, and he needed to inspire this crowd. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Yes, there was warning—years of it, in fact—but public service announcements about conservation are a whole lot different from a total stoppage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was thinking: Who had told the public you weren’t supposed to text and drive? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Martial law continued with an eye to the necessity of taking emergency measures for the public disaster of the endless downpour, but the troops were confined to quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That was part of the reason I worked so hard to keep my own name and face and identity out of any public records. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A year or so earlier these same girls had been porcelain figurines, gingerly dipping their toes into the disinfectant basin at the public pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Part of her was wondering whether she should make a last-minute bathroom run, because there was no telling whether the Underworld had public restrooms. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, the rooms in the west wing were not shown to the public. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was growing angry over the public interrogation, yet there was nothing I could do but endure the ordeal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she learned that I took the public bus home from school, she insisted on picking me up every day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But a study funded by the Ford Foundation and other private donors found that nearly 30 percent of California public schools provide no courses at all in the arts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He designed it to channel their talent and resources into productive activities that served the public interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were devastating and primarily leveled both cities, but little was told to the public then except that a new kind of bomb had been used against the Japanese. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Huxley was evolution’s public champion, still fighting for Darwinism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for the first time in his public life he mumbles, his voice cracks, and even an accent sneaks through. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On days off in Portorož, during the rare times he wandered into public view, Bobby was continually asked for his autograph or to pose for a photo. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Among other plots, Harvey attempted to damage Castro's public image by adding chemicals to his cigars that would have made him seem confused and incoherent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The language of their Mexican past sounded in counterpoint to the English of public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knit my old life into my new one, my private concerns into my public work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“With an Internet connection, anyone can see. At school, the public library. Home. Anywhere.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted us to go to a public school called Emerson. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If that wasn’t enough to make someone leave southern Ohio, Odessa was also promoted as a utopian health spa with a $12,000 college and a public library, and a ban on alcohol. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if I were waiting for trains that never came. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cannot say this was an encouraging sign re: our odds of going public. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Netscape helped to guarantee that these open protocols would not be proprietary by commercializing them for the public,” said Andreessen. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was the very first time I’d ever sung a solo in public, and my leg was shaking at first, but once I powered through it like Imam Malik taught me to, I felt electric. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Egyptian art is rife with depictions of musicians and their instruments, suggesting that music was an important feature of public and private life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes. Co a Askew’s insides has been given a public airing.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that public defender was going to tell everyone how Mr. Griswald smacked Digger in the eye, too, the night before our Valentine dance in middle school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the United States might develop into a nation of laws and established institutions capable of surviving corrupt or incompetent public officials. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If anybody asks, you might tell them that this arrest was made possible, in part, thanks to the fine public education offered at Riverview Middle School.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She entered the office, glad that it was a public place and she needn’t knock. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My only weakness—and it is a huge one—is public speaking in Quichua. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The American public got a slight taste of the fear which overshadows the people of Europe constantly.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Catt also issued a public statement to the president pledging NAWSA’s support of the war effort and accepting Wilson’s invitation to serve on the Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It shows the importance of work and marriage,” said Sara S. McLanahan, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton who specializes in family and poverty. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All forms of public transport had long since ceased and we lived miles away in Orlando. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, boy, what do you think of public ownership? Do you think the government ought to build houses for people to live in?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It has always killed me how fast the criminal goes from being a bad guy at his trial to some kind of victim once he’s in prison, according to public perception,” he added. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We usually honored a luminary in public service and a client. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Expenditures on public housing have fallen since the 1980s, and the expansion of public rental subsidies came to a halt in the mid-1990s. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would bulldoze the barrier separating the public from the private. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a vocal woman in the public eye. I take precautions.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The child custody proceedings and public scandal had taken a toll on her; she had started using drugs and seemed to fall apart. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As a rule, I find public architecture stimulating. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Miss Heather had all the books sent to me, and she made sure I was keeping pace with what all the public school kids in my grade were doing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So long as you aren’t going to farm your land, why don’t you rent it and move to the county seat—near our good public schools?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the counselor stated that Mr. Paine Underwood had made “significant though sometimes painful progress” in managing his temper, and that he presented “no immediate threat to himself, his family, or the innocent public.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

That fall, Lori helped me find a public school where, instead of going to classes, the students signed up for internships all over the city. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Bruno searched the sandy beaches, and the public parks...” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not only had he lost, but he’d been unable to prove to himself—and the public—that he could win a single game against Spassky. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I ditched my classes and would call him from the public phones on campus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The gym instructor was a short, chunky man in his early thirties who taught in the mornings in a nearby public high school and supplemented his income by teaching in our yeshiva during the afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Congress to pass the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in public accommodations such as restaurants, theaters and hotels, in government, and in employment. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite our conversations and all the public declarations that school officials could protect us, the truth was, things were getting worse by the moment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with public feeling running high, the dominant line, at least in the US, was: “You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

We practice public speaking and how to converse with top government officials and important businesspeople. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found further justification for these feelings as a result of the activities of several blacks who had gained public positions. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Yuri Gagarin had flown into space, he was often called on to speak in public and represent the Soviet Union. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I think they have people coming down all the time—regular tours through the home as a kind of public relations thing. But why?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The most visible sign of the failed system is the astonishingly large caseloads public defenders routinely carry, making it impossible for them to provide meaningful representation to their clients. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At Los Alamos, most scientists first heard the news over the public address system. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone from Barack’s administration might have said that the optics there were bad—that what the public saw didn’t reflect the president’s reality or ideals. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since he did not hesitate to explain his position in public every time he had the chance, for everyone but his own co-religionists he soon became a caricature of the picturesque, reactionary oligarch. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older boys went back to eating, disappointed by the lack of a public scourging, but the baby, Jim Bowie, said, “Hi, Callie. I missed you. Where have you been?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Despite the international news coverage of the 1938 broadcast, later radio versions of The War of the Worlds deceived the public, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She might not be able to afford law school, she thought, but she could always make a living doing public relations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The general public was invited to the evening show, and the auditorium was packed. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the time I heard someone speaking at home and didn’t distinguish his sounds from the words people uttered in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

McKissick agreed to represent Thorpe, determining that her case marked an important test for the rights of public housing residents. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because I attend a large public high school in a state where football is idolized and jocks are demigods, I've had my fair share of abuse. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No public swimming pools, no crowds in summer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Butler also liked the new public path that C.P. was blazing for the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most public universities had opened admission to women or were considering the possibility. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Museum at Alexandria, likewise, would have been presented to the public as a religious benefaction from the king. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The last time I shared my poems in public was for the after-school performance in June, and even that was only for the kids who had taken that poetry class. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“It will have to be public,” I say. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At least she’s nice enough never to bring it up in public. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, heard about the upcoming protests, he obtained a court order forbidding the marches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tension rose still further over the next few months as a routine decision about the placement of new public housing escalated into a battle over ghettoization. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Did you know," Mrs Phelps said, "that public libraries like this allow you to borrow books and take them home?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That and the public school system, which forced her hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first crowded public place he could find was a little bar, thronged and smoky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here are some of the things that they said I’m very concerned with the general public’s lack of mathematical skills. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It took my friend Lula Gates a long time to live down the ignominy of getting sick in public at the piano recital. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The public did not yet know whether Lincoln was still alive. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

More likely, though, conformity of expression gathered momentum because the record-buying, radio-listening public liked it better, and bands reflected the change in fashion for entirely understandable commercial reasons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They were unpleasant enough, these private inquisitions, but I cannot find words to adequately express the torments I suffered when he chose to ply this art of his in public. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If he was discovered in a hotel room with a woman not his wife, his name would appear in the section of the newspaper reserved for public shaming. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, Johnson and McNamara were telling Congress and the public only part of the story of recent events in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Our education in the Bristol Township school district was not terrific, but neither was it so far removed from what a student in a wealthier public school district would have received. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Smith managed the public swimming pools in Leeds, Alabama, a small city about twenty miles east of downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a radio broadcast last night Mayor Ditz warned of possible mob violence and exhorted the public to maintain order. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to climb down when he saw kids gathering at the public library. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had many opportunities to sing in public, and as she gained confidence, she began to dream of a career as a singer. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

North Carolina passes the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, requiring people to use public bathrooms according to the biological sex on their birth certificate. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We wanted to surprise them when they came home, so we frequented the public dump on early Saturday evenings to look for discarded paint and linoleum to brighten the inside of our house. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Byrd cronies retaliated by diverting taxpayer money to fund whites-only “segregation academies,” private schools founded to circumvent integrated public schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough in a car, but taking public transport would be twice as long and twice as hard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Esoteric knowledge was replaced by a new form of knowledge which depended both on publication and on public or semi-public performance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I caught the streetcar to go to the public beach down at the harbor. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Acting together, these German people created enough public pressure for Hitler to reconsider. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to go back to the States—at least, that’s what he told an American public health expert who visited him in the hospital—but he was thinking, “Please take me home.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The investigative journalist Jonathan Kwitny later argued that the case was “a fine example of what can happen when important matters of public policy are abandoned by government to the self-interest of corporations.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

My mother was a very modest person, and this was going to be agony for her, sitting down in public, among strangers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The source of that confidence was a sustained programme of advertising the new science through public lectures and books conducted by the disciples of Newton, above all by Desaguliers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Black fabric hung from homes and public buildings. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To drum up public support for the law, legal injunctions were bolstered by insidious propaganda—a formula that the Nazis would eventually bring to monstrous perfection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“No, of course not. Each portable is connected to the main office by a telephone and a public- address system, and each has its own pull alarm in case of fire.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experts believe that cholera will continue to spike and ebb in Haiti until safe public water systems are available throughout the country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Isn’t there some law that protects the privacy of people in public places? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, we do have evidence of music’s perennial importance to public and private life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She made public speeches, but she dreaded them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Cora and Caesar grew more casual about referring to Randall in public as the months passed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This was the first major civil rights victory won through widespread public protests. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

By time Lee Roy and I got downtown, the caravans had reached the public well near my granddaddy’s store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Thursday Lecture day, the day of public punishment, was two days away. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says there’s nothing left but the Dispensary and the public assistance, the relief, and she’s ashamed of her life to go and ask for it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Today, both business owners and the public are far more aware of the necessity of protecting the worker. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They stayed pretty much in the rooms and avoided public places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The act granted public housing agencies the authority to use leases to evict any tenant, household member, or guest engaged in any criminal activity on or near public housing premises. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He added that the order to restrict text messaging by federal employees behind the wheel “sends a very clear signal to the American public that distracted driving is dangerous and unacceptable.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, appeals for his involvement in the public debate kept arriving at the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They all had branches I could reach from public land, but none of them had quite ripened yet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Also, by 2000, traders by the thousands had begun to move back and forth across the border supplying food and goods for markets that had all but replaced the government’s public distribution system. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Negroes and whites are not allowed to share water fountains, movie houses, public restrooms, ballparks, phone booths, circus shows. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Might there be a way to test for discrimination in a public setting? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In both places the public death was accompanied by the reading of ritual scripts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But he managed to maintain his composure in public. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Not a single black child attended an integrated public grade school in South Carolina, Alabama, or Mississippi as of the 1962–1963 school year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lewis “told me facetiously that he is going to have the Radiation Laboratory declared a public nuisance,” Lawrence wrote Poillon, not without a certain perverse pride. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Pearl glanced over her shoulder, in the universal reaction of all teenagers confronted by their parents in a public place. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were all these hard-as-hell chairs for the public to sit. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The public discourse regarding “missing black fathers” closely parallels the debate about the lack of eligible black men for marriage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And unbeknownst to the general public, the Supreme Court has actually authorized race discrimination in policing, rather than adopting legal rules banning it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At home, public support for the war was slowly eroding, and Johnson’s fear that American troop morale would slip as the war dragged on was proving painfully correct. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Not to understand this is to misunderstand the public uses of schooling and to trivialize the nature of intimate life—a family’s ‘language.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter enjoyed the travel and the attention, even though he didn’t much like speaking in public. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Okay, you're shy about public speaking, but how does that apply to writing down the answers? If you can read, then you can write, right?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred thousand mourners lined the route to the Capitol, where the body was put on view for the public to pay their last respects. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’s one of the kids I tutor at the public library. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His mom has signed off on them going public with the truth, which is incredible, but there’s no reason to expect that from the crown. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the hippie public school in my neighborhood. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had no frame of reference for my life, so we talked about hers—how the public school system was corrupt so she was teaching her children herself, at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Let some civil rights “leader” make some statement, displeasing to the white public power structure, and the reporters, in an effort to whip him back into line, would try to use me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That man,” he exclaimed, “is a public menace. I can’t think why somebody doesn’t do away with him.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pascal’s experiment was different: it was put on as a public show, but still there is no reason to think that Pascal intended to publish any time soon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Yet another common suffragist strategy was the presentation of pageants, which the dictionary defines as “an elaborate public dramatic presentation that usually depicts a historical or traditional event.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, let me assure the public that we will leave no stone unturned in our search for those who committed this heinous act. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Private schools aren't linked up with the state government like the public schools are. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was told by a minister, for example, that I should never, on any public conveyance, under any circumstances, rise and give my seat to a white woman. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When Adams received word of this outrageous ultimatum, he ordered the delegation to return home, but he also withheld the official dispatches describing the bribery scheme from the Congress and the public. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Was Cleopatra present to witness her sisters public humiliation? Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Offering him a job at the new Levy Shorts would be even better for public relations. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, she makes occasional public appearances and gives interviews supporting women astronauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Although the public wanted to see Bobby back at the board, his absence from chess for less than a year was not an aberration. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But though the press and track officials were skeptical, the public was not. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time, the author suggested, before museums would respond to the public’s thinking. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next time the public seemed to be losing interest another message appeared, saying: Be patient. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Other than during his sojourns in England, Haydn’s long career was mosdy unaffected by what the public thought of his music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Weights and cardio starts tomorrow. We hit the ice next week. First scrimmage is against that public school from Buffalo. Let’s kill ’em.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took my hand as we walked to the river, which surprised me, as he’s normally reticent to show affection in public. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexandriaville’s new public library had been under construction for five years. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Somehow the inclination to write about my private life in public is related to the ability to do so. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After this first encounter, I realized that there were two Malcolms—the private and the public person. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’d shift me to a school closer to home, maybe a public or Catholic school, but not a military school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Those of us who were Jewish spoke Yiddish at home, Polish in public, and Hebrew in religious school or at the synagogue. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Outside the house was public society; inside the house was private. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 17, he told the public, “We seek no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Often, the speech of people in public seemed to me very loud, booming with confidence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was a relief to the public...and also to Arthur and Conkling, who had been accused in the press of conspiring with him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I really could go on for pages about all the public histrionics in the days after Bunny’s death. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Schools closed, parents panicked, and the public grew desperate for a vaccine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It eventually occurred to me that even if I was being homeschooled, I could still see my friends in public school. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t brought up to be running in public places. No, sir. She surely wasn’t.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We will look the other way and deny our public agencies the resources, data, and tools they need to solve problems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We were careful not to use public toilets or to drink from water fountains marked “whites only.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since his arrival in the country, he had made various public statements that infuriated many black people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Women who had never before heard their own voices in a public meeting discussed points of law and constitution in a manner that would have done credit to any legislative assembly.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At the same time, we did not want to give up on the important public policies and activities that brought the ANC attention and mass support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it was. I made certain of it, right before we locked down the library to the public. Since then, the only ones allowed near the books have been our thirty-two young Olympians....” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

We passed the public stocks, which were empty, then came upon a spot where three streets diverged, like a trident. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In youth she had been so thoroughly beautiful that her beauty had been public property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were sentenced to public punishment by toad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The public, then as now, were simply baffled. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The choice of phrase caused much mirth when the will became public on the death of Halifax in 1715, not least to Newton’s bitter enemy Flamsteed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This thirst for worn things led to casual but habitual examinations of trash barrels in alleys and wastebaskets in public places. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the smell inside the men's public lavatory at our local railway-station. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But Emily Brent was not one to be swayed by public opinion. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It doesn't matter if it's a public school or one like mine. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, “What ho, minion! I need thee!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin had seen prisoners die in the camp before—of hunger, illness, beatings, and at public executions—but not as a routine part of work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

On June 1, 1919, seven explosives in five eastern cities tore apart homes and public buildings. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In this novel, the main character has Asperger’s syndrome but is receiving early intervention through the public school system. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Context will always guard the realm of the intimate from public misuse. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack, of course, got the most of it—the public adulation as well as the scrutiny that rode inevitably on its back. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And they also discovered that distilling instructions, published by the US Department of Agriculture, were available in almost every public library. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In front of the domed courthouse someone had stuck a Confederate flag in the mouth of their public cannon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system, where my sons are being educated, fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I rehearse here the changes in my private life after my Americanization, it is finally to emphasize the public gain. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inventors often have to persist at their tinkering for a long time in the absence of public demand, because early models perform too poorly to be useful. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the study focused on the Johnson years, covering Johnson’s misleading public statements about the Tonkin Gulf incident, and everything that followed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We were going to let him finish dying in public, but he has no entertainment value. He’s spent days curled up sleeping. What sort of spectacle is that? Otis, tip over the jar.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My mothers letter has served to remind me: I am making my personal life public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who knew him, like Lanita Akins, thought he was a brilliant politician who had provided blacks in Odessa with their first real public voice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arriving scythes were protected from their adoring public, even if the public was not protected from them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And if I go public, instantly I'm a scientific oddity, front-page news. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A street urchin with filthy dungarees and eyes the wounded blue of fresh bruises, guided by the hand into a public toilet by a much older gentleman. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The man who, more than any other, was responsible for this transformation was Dr. Joseph Goebbels, minister of public enlightenment and propaganda. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours into the flight the pilot came on the public address system to announce that we were passing over Liberal, Kansas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the American South during that same period, it would have been highly unusual for a white landowner to have such a public relationship with a slave. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They don’t ride on public buses and subways. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To counter such negative impressions, prominent business people launched an all-out public relations campaign. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

On weekends I’d go to the public library to read, surrounded by old men and women. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was certain the public would hail him as a patriot for saving the country. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Second, they all knew one another personally, meaning that they broke bread together, sat together at countless meetings, corresponded with one another about private as well as public matters. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Robert Todd Lincoln went on to a stellar career as an attorney and then public official. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was years before this tragedy was made public. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But I would have delayed—for how long postponed?—having to learn the language of public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

White parents are outraged, threatening to remove their children from public schools and place them in private education. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As a result of Thorpe’s case, however, the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued new regulations stating that public housing residents could not be evicted without cause and could appeal the action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you see any of those wusses getting expelled? From every public school in Tangerine County?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the United States, public housing agencies have adopted exclusionary policies that deny eligibility to applicants even with the most minor criminal backgrounds. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dad said public school was a ploy by the Government to lead children away from God. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I never used public restrooms unless I was absolutely desperate. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The goal was to isolate the Germans, to keep them from even mentioning the words atomic bomb in public. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This demand was satisfied by another catalytic event: the rollout of Windows 95, which shipped fifteen days after Netscape took its stock public. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, I didn’t have any friends except Amy who had a mother who let her hair out in public. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Imam Malik advised me to go first when I’m speaking in public, so I have less time to get worked up about it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

About 150 gathered outside a local public hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He repeatedly told the public he was demanding a full and vigorous investigation of the Watergate break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There’s been increased security in public places—airports, train stations, even shopping malls. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The isolation only worsened what the press had begun calling the “credibility gap”—the gap between what Johnson was telling the public and what the public believed was really happening in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It fascinates me to see the Youns courting girls in public, for in the Khmer culture these things are done in secret. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson required what we would call “deniability,” not just for public purposes but also for his own private serenity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And then, in full view of all watching eyes, flagrantly disregarding ancient rules about women and men touching in public, I take Amit's hand and walk away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s as if someone has taken the real Astrid Jones and replaced her with one who is okay with intimacy in public places. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were the legs of a once quite widely acknowledged public beauty, a vaudevillian, a dancer, a very light dancer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the waterfront, beyond a huge parking lot jammed with cars, they found a public park. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lili greeted some of the market women as they walked together to the public water fountain. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And then to get out, in public, at the president’s house? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here the Pan-American Highway had, as it turned out, sliced through some of the oldest public architecture anywhere on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“One that even the genetically pure cannot fight off. I don’t know how Nita knows about it, since it’s not supposed to be public knowledge, but I suppose we’ll find out some other time.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Berkeley attracted the most promising young graduate students, hosted the most eminent visiting lecturers, pocketed the largest contributions from research foundations and garnered the lion’s share of public interest and acclaim. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Such a public revelation only brought about irritating questions. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Until now, I had never been the target of her public extravagance. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

This conclusion added to public alarm not merely about test fallout but also about the global arms race generally. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The “people” had replaced the “public” as the sovereign source of political wisdom. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This was their first time at a public function since he took sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

During those days I didn’t think much about the signs that hung above water fountains, toilets, bus station waiting rooms, restaurants, theaters, and other public places. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three afternoons a week and two Saturdays a month, she works at the public library, just as Sonia had done when she was in high school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I could never saunter around in public like that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now, finally, he had an advantage—the public’s anger with Johnson and the Democrats for mishandling the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“There may not be any Erudite or Dauntless traitors around, but it still feels weird, talking about it in public like this.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Meet you at the public library tomorrow after school?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they left, I rolled over on my stomach and wondered if I could get in touch with the Department of Interior and find out more about the public lands in the West. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Paris Peace Accords went nowhere, and public opinion kept turning further against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The experts wrote an article making public their unanimous conclusion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nationally, Virginia’s white teachers ranked in the bottom quarter in public school salaries, and their black counterparts might earn almost 50 percent less. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Michael had stayed long past the two years he had committed to us, but he was now scheduled to move to San Diego to start a job as a federal public defender. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Myrna is preparing to bray at some unfortunate Negro. In public.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense, the public setting is half the fun! It brings in so many restrictions, so many challenging parameters to work around.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They easily climbed under the velvet rope that meant that the restaurant was closed to the public. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the public trust in such an eventual outcome results from the misconception that cancer is a single, though mysterious disease, with a single cause and, hopefully, a single cure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Bull Connor lost his job as commissioner of public safety, the Jim Crow signs came down in my city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There is a white steepled Congregational church, a stone courthouse with an adjoining jail, a cupolaed public library, a wooden well from which Paul Revere is rumored to have drunk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From some of the nation’s leading scientists would come denunciations of Oppenheimer, veiled and overt, among them Edward Teller’s assertion that “I personally would feel more secure if public matters would rest in other hands.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

From Tet onward, public confidence in Johnson had eroded until it was at an all-time low. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing, this time, was going to stop it from being run. hen news of the deal broke to an ecstatic public on October 5, horsemen were amazed that Howard had accepted the walk-up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents believed in telling a person bad news in public so they couldn’t make a scene. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the overthrow of Mossadegh, public opinion in Iran was so against the Brits taking total control of the country's oil supply again that IOP was the United Kingdom's next best option. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And with no rickshaws, and no one starving in public. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Washington was the epitome of the virtuous leader who subordinated personal interest to the public good, Burr was a kind of anti-Washington, who manipulated the public interest for his own inscrutable purposes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hoover assured the American public that the explosives were seized and the saboteurs imprisoned. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He married and divorced repeatedly, gaining notoriety among gossip columnists for slugging one of his wives and engaging in public shouting matches with the others. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no other public occasion of sound so important for me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I couldn’t just have admitted the truth, that I’d gone to the public school in Plano. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I guess that was a private, not a public thing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At that time—and in many ways it is still true—the public was given at best a very limited and horribly skewed idea of what nuclear war would be like. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I’m a seventh grader at Riverview Middle School—that’s a public school, a school maintained at public expense, so I want to say thanks to the public.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“So it became public, what they were trading for . . .” “Yes, and sometimes the crowd called out in a scornful way. They jeered. I think that’s the right word.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They arrived at the public library a little after seven o’clock. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Such public displays of affection can be embarrassing to a prepubescent girl like me who is not accustomed to being in the company of two married people who like each other. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is true that my public society today is often impersonal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The public girl, running for class treasurer and joining the debate club, and the private boy, the sidekick on 7-Eleven runs. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Inside, she was taken through a door that was off-limits to the public and led into a maze of hallways. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the Pittsburgh airport he discovered that Danville was 240 miles northeast, and not accessible by any public transportation other than a Greyhound bus. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nowhere is the stratification of education more vivid than in Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson once tried, and failed, to set up the nation’s first public high schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

With the tide of public opinion having turned so completely against the police, Samuel Gompers, the head of the AFL, urged them to end their strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The difference is that one will be splurging and then play on a public course while the other will not blink at the price and tee off at a private country club. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

No nice lady would pick a fuss in public like that, much less tell anybody and everybody her personal business. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His biggest fashion consideration for a public moment was whether to have his suit jacket on or off. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Reyburn kept the official notes on the president's condition, which were used to make public announcements. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But for countless poor people—particularly racial minorities who disproportionately rely on public assistance—that possibility looms large. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“After the recess, the public will have the opportunity to speak for or against any project.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A woman disrobing in public, a man with a skirt over his head—the marvels of the fair seemed endless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“In view of the unprecedented disturbance of the public mind, the duty of this Court is clear,” the judge said and paused. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All through the fall of 1933, Ernest Lawrence had been on a soaring high, his fame growing within the physics fraternity and among the public. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

What will he think of this very public salute to the girl who defied the Capitol? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Such is the benefit of language: By finding public words to describe one’s feelings, one can describe oneself to oneself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of writing a public apology was galling to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A TB epidemic, laced with MDR, had occurred in New York City in the late 1980s, largely targeting prisons, homeless shelters, and public hospitals. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The letter told Mr. Larson that this would be a public hearing and he might want to have his own lawyer present at the meeting. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Invited next to join the March were four famous white public figures: one Catholic, one Jew, one Protestant, and one labor boss. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, we’re taught that it’s not polite to say so in public. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day when Liyana returned from school by public bus, a lady she’d never seen before was sitting in their living room on the low couch. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Five of those guillotines—borrowed from the public library, the community college, plus our own elementary and high schools—slice construction paper with machine-like efficiency. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She had become public property—no longer the mother of seven children, but a woman desired by many. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It becomes with public repetition a series of words, increasingly lifeless. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As cool as Dexter was, he was terrified of going out in public. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, it was all right to make comments at girls—particularly if they were insults—but real conversations were out, at least in public places. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon reentry on June 19, the Vostok 6 was delayed because of problems that were not made public at the time. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They are also subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service, just as their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents once were. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Recent surveys by Margaret Poloma, a historian at the University of Akron in Ohio, found Assemblies members more educated and better off than the general public. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It hadn't been open to the public for some time. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, I would studiously avoid sitting near the middle class in lunch counters and on public transportation, maintaining the intrinsic honesty and grandeur of my being. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t like the way people from North Carolina look at her in public sometimes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It is not nearly enough to persuade mainstream voters that we have relied too heavily on incarceration or that drug abuse is a public health problem, not a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some public health experts worry that other diseases like mad cow could start to appear because of this practice. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My progress must have prompted the Sixers to end their covert attempts to clear the Third Gate and make its location public by barricading it before I or anyone else could reach it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My father spoke at that rally, his voice booming out clearly through the public address system. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jamie felt that letting Claudia know that she couldn’t get away with shoving him in public was more important than his curiosity. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This might be the only time in the history of the world that public school lunch lines have been remembered with nostalgia. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He rarely got angry at him unless my grandfather said something mean about my mom or sister or made a scene in public. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai was amazed the Masks would hide in such a public place, but of course it wasn’t public. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it a he or a she? The public will want to know.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was his prior criminal history, and the very public argument at the coffeehouse. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

This billionaire philanthropist named Bernard Lutz set it up in conjunction with the public school system, like a school within a school—all you have to do to get in is pass a test. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Neither did the public learn that the Central Intelligence Agency was warning Johnson that even a large American ground force would probably be unable to stop the Communists from eventually taking over in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Claudia selected where they would hide during that dangerous time immediately after the museum was closed to the public and before all the guards and helpers left. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver’s grandfather had recently retired as a district court judge, which gave the accident an extra public layer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was as if she knew he had lost a social life, and she insistently invited him to the arts theater, to public lectures, to play squash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever done, it’s not as if I fell over in public, or yelled at a stranger in the street. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, again led by Paul and Burns, they went on a hunger strike, a strategy designed to attract public attention to what the denial of women’s right to vote had led to. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They tend them in private, even in public. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The collapse of the Soviet Union had meant the deterioration of its public health policy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Once blackness and crime, especially drug crime, became conflated in the public consciousness, the “criminalblackman,” as termed by legal scholar Kathryn Russell, would inevitably become the primary target of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of one bridge that could be used if and when the shattering disclosure should become public. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What other parallels may there be, not only in Colorado but wherever chemical pollution finds its way into public waters? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The coded Soviet telegrams couldn’t be used in a public court, because the Americans didn’t want the Soviets to know they had broken their code. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tennyson was normally a very proper woman who never went out in public without dressing up in fine clothes and a hat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The next day, at five minutes to six, Chester was about to begin the last public piece he would ever play in New York City. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you share on the internet will live in public space forever. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I am not and never have been a man who finds it easy to talk about his feelings in public. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be just enough to give a hint, a small peek, to the public of what would be involved. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After the service, Bodega’s sister had asked the managers of a minimarket on the comer of 109th and Madison to let the public view Bodega’s body there. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

By then our distrust had grown stronger, and they didn’t get many volunteers from the public. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was still dark out when I found the public fountain by die aquarium and bathed in it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was built in 2006 to help newly arrived youngsters from the North, most of whom are unfit for public school in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Once the engagement is public, Theo confides in his sister Lies that he doesn’t know how happy his friend will be with Annie. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He graduated from his public high school in New York at a time when New York City public schools were the envy of the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was a great bare barn of a building with a corrugated iron roof and was considered the only public building large enough to support a trial of so many accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For decades the press had been reporting that cell culture was going to save the world from disease and make man immortal, but by 1951 the general public had stopped buying it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

People in public housing have nothing to do. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until this medication was discovered, the victims of this disease had had to wear pancake makeup when they went out in public. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the water from Norfolk, on the peninsula that Langley called home, public schools remained open but segregated. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No KGB official had ever taken a public stand against the organization inside the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He turns away to escort the chief back to his patrol car, no doubt apologizing for the public spectacle I’ve caused. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The loneliness I have felt many mornings, however, has not made me forget that I am engaged in a highly public activity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Muslims I knew didn't have to be afraid to be seen in public wearing the hijab the way they are today. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We will assign several members of our media relations team to that program, so the public can get the latest information as fast as possible. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enforcement remained a serious problem even where there were laws, notes Harsha and other public safety advocates. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Strabo’s terse description of “a public walk and a place furnished with seats, and a large hall” can be interpreted to suggest some sort of ambulatory with alcoves to the side, containing the scrolls. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Swann rightfully protested; he declared that he had been attacked in public and would answer in public. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The park is liberally sprinkled with public campgrounds and rest stops with restaurants and shops—and the AT, God bless it, pays nearly every one of them a call. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. With your permission, of course. It might help sway attitudes about the power of a free public education.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Alabama’s public schools and facilities remained strictly segregated. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before appearing in public with Toscanini, however, Shirley had first to spruce up his cage. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The championship bout is five days away when the public discovers I have a boyfriend, who maybe doesn't look like Hugh but definitely cooks like him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After school, I went to the public library but could not focus on my homework. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Although I had, by that time, grown easy in public, I felt that my family life was strictly private, not to be revealed to unfamiliar ears or eyes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother said it was the height of rudeness for a public servant with privileged knowledge to pry, and for once I had to agree with her. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was obvious she belonged in some uptown prep academy, not a run-down public school like Hudson Square. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They’d read it right away, the senator said, and set up a public hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—a dramatic setting in which to unveil the Pentagon Papers to the American people. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The new laws and tactics of the government had made the old forms of mass protest — public meetings, press statements, stay-aways — extremely dangerous and self-destructive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Court had said that separate public schools for whites and African-Americans were not equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Your Honor, this Court and those troops are not the real agencies that keep the public peace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What they understood was that I needed to speak a public language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the men were shocked by the public outrage against them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He also made Dad swear not to say anything bad about Dusty on TV, in the newspapers, or anywhere in public. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry, on the other hand, was going to Stonewall High, the local public school. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Some documents that had been made public were classified all over again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They got a job together taking care of a public school and they loved it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, my history deserves public notice as no more than this: a parable for the life of its reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As a public library, Mr. Lemoncello, this institution needs a board of trustees to oversee its finances and champion its mission.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

"I saw the queues, the shortages, the filthiness of public lavatories, the bureaucracy, the corruption, the red tape, the rudeness of officials, the impossibility of obtaining redress when one had a complaint," he remembered. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

These events were seized upon by the press, and their vivid accounts of what had taken place shocked the country and led to a public outcry for the suffragists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Once I learned public language, it would never again be easy for me to hear intimate family voices. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce-looking dogs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Another problem was that the letter had fired the public’s curiosity and imagination. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She studied history written by Herodotus and Thucydides, which included political and military events of the past, and memorized the speeches of Demosthenes to learn the fine points of public speaking and debate. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

First of all, loud and angry crowds of white people had now begun to gather in rallies in public places, shouting that we would never sit in their schools beside their children. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I could ride my bicycle around Sacramento; watch public school kids walking to school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my coming of age: I became a man by becoming a public man. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of Birmingham’s public facilities were now open to black people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A one-woman publicity machine, she sent out indignant press releases, as well as letters to the government demanding a public accounting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t get the public outcry over air bags,” he said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By the late 1970s, Fischer hadn’t played a single game of chess in public since Iceland. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It led the charge for tougher laws and tougher enforcement, and for public education. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Former slaves, it was argued, were too illiterate to exercise the vote responsibly, and were ill-prepared for the duties of public office. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A public survey about their research was overwhelmingly negative, calling it pointless and dangerous, an example of “men trying to be gods.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise watched his self-important little face and almost laughed when she reflected that the South was indeed pitiless to reward its public servants with extinction. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Once a semblance of silence had descended, I got on the public comm channel, which had the same effect as turning on a giant PA system. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She predicted that the Republican leaders “will...take ultimately a station in the public’s estimation like that of the Tories in our Revolution.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Greeks had also plundered interior sites, such as Heliopolis, for sphinxes, obelisks, columns, and so on, with which to decorate their public spaces. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But in the case of housing, the extreme upward skewing of the market has been accompanied by a cowardly public sector retreat from responsibility. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; his advice on public and even private matters was frequently sought. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to write papers and do projects just like the public school kids, but Miss Heather’s approach to testing was a little different. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That way, the American public would know Hitler had a long reach, igniting fear, panic, and prejudice. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Since the election launched a wave of women having their scarves ripped off in public, some people in the community actually suggested hijabis shed the scarf, to be less obvious targets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Several weeks before his death, he had to be carried from his hospital bed to make one of his rare public appearances. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, in the shape of sermons, Christianity provided regular formal occasions for public speaking. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

A fitness buff, he would often drop to the floor of the Caltech dining hall or other public areas and do one-armed pushups to demonstrate his virility to anyone who seemed inclined to doubt it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

It would not exist as a work in the form that we know today were it not for the engagement and approval of a broader public in Handel’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Right at the end of sophomore year, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools like ours would have to be integrated, though they didn’t say when. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I await only your preliminary public announcement of the event. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nooses, racial slurs, and overt bigotry are widely condemned by people across the political spectrum; they are understood to be remnants of the past, no longer reflective of the prevailing public consensus about race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The only evidence of Nixon’s shady dealings came from bugs and wiretaps, which Johnson certainly did not wish to make public. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful secret and public place. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It became, arguably, the most powerful, and effective public safety advocacy group in the country. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even if you are a private citizen, you surely wouldn’t want to seem bigoted while appearing in public. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The level of public concern about crime and drugs was only weakly correlated with actual crime rates, but highly correlated with political initiatives, campaigns, and partisan appeals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But your company advertised this event as open to the public,” Officer Delinko pointed out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie tried not to make a public show of her grief, trying to eat, not eating, shaking, trying not to shake, and thinking: How am I going to do this alone? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It's one thing Ross Wilcox giving you a going-over in public. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike the majority of the audience, Monroe believed the poem to be rather a brilliant work, so much so that she had hired a printer to produce five thousand copies for sale to the public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When my mom makes a scene in public, it makes my skin crawl. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to post somewhere public like Wattpad, I would be opening myself up to feedback from strangers who won’t care if this is the story of my heart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The migrants most badly mangled by the train run up bills of $1,000 to $1,500 each when they end up at a public hospital one and a half hours away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Barack and I stepped out to walk a short stretch of the parade route and wave to the public, Malia and Sasha stayed behind inside the warm cocoon of the moving limo. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the noisy birthday party—which was to be followed by a public celebration the next evening—we weren't noticed, and when she left fairly early in the evening I saw her home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

No man would allow a woman he had any affection for to come to him on public transportation in the middle of the night, especially a woman as old as Ruth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made sure that young people conducted themselves in an orderly fashion in public places. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there was extra and I figured I was doing Velma T. a favor to get her elixir out among the ailing public.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The raw data for the calculations can come from public sources and, appropriately massaged, can yield surprising conclusions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton sweet-talked wealthy patrons, took public donations, and raised money as an advance based on future sales of film and photo rights. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Her death in 1919 is well documented in public records, photographs, witness accounts, and newspaper articles. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I look around and realize my little plan has a flaw: A public washroom does not offer a lot of places to hide a bundle of clothes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After checking with his attorney, he discovered that because he was a public figure, the producers—Paramount Pictures—had the right to use his name. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Caddo had a taste for monumental architecture: public plazas, ceremonial platforms, mausoleums. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They created the most effective public relations campaign in history, inventing techniques that we use to this day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She comforted herself that at least it made William better known to the public. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was his treasure, he’d say, patting his lap, as if I were a girl in a jumper instead of a woman of twenty-three in the slacks he objected to my wearing in public. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The committee decided to ignore the problem—at least on the public record—and concentrate instead on keeping people alive. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“And don’t tell your mother. I’ll catch it if she finds out I took you out in public.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Three years of military rule had resembled a war and caused a public health disaster. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One day he might help a group of environmentalists expose a public health hazard. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

While Washington law required separate public schools for black students and white students, recreational facilities and auditoriums often were available to interracial groups after school hours. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Ann was soon a power to be reckoned with at City Hall, at the DSS offices a few blocks away, at the public housing projects, and wherever poor black people protested unfair treatment. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The public duly sat up and took notice. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In public, my father and mother spoke a hesitant, accented, not always grammatical English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my first chance to see much of Gethenian children, for in Erhenrang they are all in the private or public Hearths and Schools. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other manufacturers had largely steered clear of the machines because, in addition to questions about the machinery’s dependability, it was felt that the public wouldn't accept machine-rolled cigarettes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They assured the public that they were just creating cells, not “trying to produce centaurs.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If we were out in public or anywhere people might overhear us and I called him “Dad,” someone might have asked questions or called the police. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Added to European snobbery was white American scepticism about Dvorak's public statements. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The report closed, “If we are not to be disgraced before the public as business-men, this matter must be followed up sharply and decisively.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Aron said, “No. I don’t like to make things public like that.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The refugees: Ugwu saw them, more and more each day, new faces on the streets, at the public borehole, in the market. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

During his bachelor days, my dad regularly had girlfriends he could take out in public. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s public information since it’s listed on the competition’s website, under rules and regulations.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I never, ever, ever talked about my father in public. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Louis Austin's daughter, Vivian Edmonds, recalls that while her father and North Carolina College president Dr. James Shepard appeared to be fierce enemies, “that was for public consumption.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding the novelty of public concert-going, music- making in the British Isles had had a more democratic profile since the temporary fall of the monarchy during the 1650s, at the end of the Civil War. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But we were thirteen by then, and this was a boy running into a girl in a really public situation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means its private schools are even better than public schools. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Strauss’s words created alarm over the prospect of nuclear holocaust without laying to rest the public’s anxiety about fallout. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, Newcomen could have invented all this and more; after all, he worked on his new engine for some fourteen years before he was ready to put it into public operation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He began earnestly trying to find a publisher for his memoir, hoping to get it quickly into print to help turn public opinion to his favor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And I never go into the park on my own because it is dangerous and people inject drugs behind the public toilets in the corner. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy ran the risk of getting into a public scene with these wild people. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first they thought of staging the concert in the small public park directly across the street from Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

While newspapers were still barred from printing my picture or any words I had ever said or written, the Post’s campaign ignited a public discussion of our release. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wheeled around the house and neighborhood with very little difficulty, although buildings without ramps and inaccessible public transportation could really start her to fussing. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New York Daily Mirror was demanding that racing officials step in and investigate the horse’s condition and either call off the race or assure the alarmed public that Seabiscuit was in good shape. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The public agrees with me that they have a right to know,” he told reporters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he’d changed his mind about being seen with her in public, he’d wanted to tuck her in the back of the cafe like a dirty secret. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

From that day on, Roberto hid the cash inside a chipped ceramic bust of Jesus Christ that we had found in the public dump. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In recent years there have been attempts to make the language of the alien public language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the public's disdain for the spoils system, he called for a law regulating civil service jobs within the government. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I knew that part of the reason I was looking forward to it was because Julian had not made it public. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The public outcry shut down all space exploration. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But while Galileo’s public reputation increased, his private life began to pose problems. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This fact is not advertised by police departments, because law enforcement officials know that the public would not respond well to this fact in the era of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She knew the public schools in the area. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Since there was no evidence of such laundering, it was Fischer’s lawyers’ belief that the government was attempting to propagandize Fischer’s sanctions case by further tarnishing his public image. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What if she’d been able to afford to pay a lawyer to defend Richard when he was fourteen instead of letting him be represented by the public defender? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And yet the same people came back to stand in line again—an act of public protest for the world to see. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time he’d been seen by the public in almost two decades. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Today I hear bilingual educators say that children lose a degree of ‘individuality’ by becoming assimilated into public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I, on the other hand, was still learning about public life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The numbers were double that of Angola, then at the end of a long civil war, and the North Korean government became furious when they were released to the public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought about Lieutenant Colonel Murnane, my tenth- and eleventh-grade history and social studies teacher, who lit a fire in me about the importance of public service. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This is a giant public health problem, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Kleptocracies with little public support run the risk of being overthrown, either by downtrodden commoners or by upstart would-be replacement kleptocrats seeking public support by promising a higher ratio of services rendered to fruits stolen. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The general public lost all interest in the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By so doing they escaped oppressive public isolation and were able to unite with many others like themselves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly wait for the day when I'll be able to go to the public library and ferret out the information I need. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When the first commercial public concerts started taking place in London the net widened to include merchants and tradespeople, a development in which England very much led the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In fact, his public conversion to Islam in 1964 and his refusal to fight in the war thrust Ali into the spotlight for his beliefs as a Muslim, not his boxing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When we moved to Montclair, the business of enrolling us in the public schools was first on the agenda. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then Brian had moved into a walk-up near the Port Authority bus terminal, and using his address, we enrolled Maureen in a good public school in Manhattan. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if I’d been out in public when something like that happened? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“After careful deliberation, it is my opinion that desegregation is an idea whose hour has arrived,” said Benjamin Lee Smith, the superintendent of the Greensboro public school system. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Plus, in the fall, Adria would be starting ninth grade at a public high school that was half an hour away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“If so, they didn’t make it public. The last press report only said that VanQuish is considered missing in action and that all details surrounding the investigation are confidential.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was no public outrage at this kind of tactics. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Next came legislation that guaranteed equal pay for equal work in public employment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They landed in a public park, in the center of a vacant soccer field lightly dusted with snow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Dogbreath” Doge, who refused to be interviewed for this book, has given the public his own sentimental version of what happened next. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A candidate for public office who does not own a ranch is said to have little chance of election. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep within doors, Ophelia. I would not have you appear in public view,” he ordered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the biggest and best collections, often owned by royalty, became what we now know as museums, which were not open to the public until nearly a hundred years later. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A not-really-maybe boyfriend who I can’t bear to be seen with in public, because I feel that repulsive when I think of us standing side by side. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He actually refused to believe me when, some months later, I informed him that the House had passed a bill allowing public schools to post the Ten Commandments. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She immediately set up a trust fund for the “perpetual betterment of Riverview Middle School and all struggling public education facilities in the city.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

What is completely missed in the rare public debates today about the plight of African Americans is that a huge percentage of them are not free to move up at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. King told us that we ought to be able to use the public water fountains in the city because “all water is God’s water.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is clearly a great thing for the environment and the public health. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Behind this screen there gleams an astonishing promise: One can become a public person while still remaining a private person. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figuring out how, exactly, to do that is no easy task, however, when your felony record operates to bar you from any public housing assistance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon, the sheik and his retinue left, and the viewing by the public resumed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To advocate placing such information in the public record, Strauss asserted, was perforce an act of disloyalty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I convinced them to open a DVD library in the corner of the store, like a public service preserving our cinematic history. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Clark had accused him of begging in public. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone—even those who had not had diversity training at taxpayer expense—knew that even though it was correct to recognize a person's ethnicity, it was not correct to comment upon it in public. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe make sure you meet in a public place. With a Taser.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parked automobiles catch fire, as do curtains and lampshades and sofas and mattresses and most of the twenty thousand volumes in the public library. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Any imagery we take goes directly to the public." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concept appealed to both Teller and Lawrence, who understood that public alarm about fallout could threaten the lab’s existence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Someone to handle the media and coach you about what to say in public.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

September through May, I went to public school in the morning and to heder, Jewish school, in the afternoon. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But it was better in public places, with strangers nearby, especially girls. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba saw a van pull up before one of the public buildings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z