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- "That's exactly why I've designed the Home Help Sanitation Initiative," Miss Hilly say.†
Chpt 1initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
- I want my initiative in the next newsletter, a full page next to the photo ops.†
Chpt 5
- It's called the Home Help Sanitation Initiative—William Junior you get down or I will snatch you baldheaded Yule May get in here—and I want it in this week.†
Chpt 5
- Hilly smiles at me and I realize she's about to bring up the initiative.†
Chpt 6
- For the second week in a row, I leave out Hilly's bathroom initiative.
Chpt 6 *initiative = proposal or thing started (in this case a movement or plan to segregate private bathrooms)
- It is one page, written in Hilly's fat, curly pen: Hilly Holbrook introduces the Home Help Sanitation Initiative.†
Chpt 12initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
- In fact, my satchel holds all the work we've done—Aibileen's and Minny's interviews, the book outline, a list of potential maids, a scathing, unmailed response I wrote to Hilly's bathroom initiative—everything I can't leave at home for fear Mother will snoop through my things.†
Chpt 13
- But Hilly's bathroom initiative is in the open center section with the paper where I wrote Jim Crow or Hilly's bathroom plan—what's the difference?†
Chpt 13
- I told you five months ago to print my initiative and now another week has passed and you still haven't followed my instructions.†
Chpt 21
- I will not print that initiative.†
Chpt 21
- "I want that initiative in the newsletter before election time," she says and points to the ceiling, "or I'm calling upstairs, missy."†
Chpt 21
- Then print the initiative.†
Chpt 21
- I reach in my satchel and pull out the page of Hilly's bathroom initiative.†
Chpt 21
- Then I type Hilly's initiative.†
Chpt 21
- She concludes the list with, "And of course we thank our anonymous contributor of, ahem, supplies, for the Home Help Sanitation Initiative.†
Chpt 25
- When I started typing out her bathroom initiative for the newsletter, typing words like disease and protect yourself and you're welcome!†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(initiative) the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction
or:
to start somethingThe exact meaning of starting something depends upon the context. For example:- "She did it on her own initiative." -- started it without anyone telling her to
- "She seized the initiative." -- started actions that force others to react to her rather than her having to react to them
- "the peace initiative" -- a plan or the start of actions to bring about something
- "a ballot initiative" -- a proposed law that is started by citizen petition rather than by the legislature (applicable in many jurisdictions such as California)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)