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The Other Wes Moore
(Edited)
- On April 15, 1982, my father ended his radio news broadcast on WMAL, a stalwart in the Washington, D.C. market, with his traditional sign-off—"This is Wes Moore, thanks again, and we'll talk next time"—as the on-air light faded to black.
p. 12.4traditional = customary (normal)
- The people I passed would look me up and down, and I would look back, give the traditional head nod, and then go back to practicing my crossover dribble.
p. 43.7 *
- She was wearing a dress that reminded me of the West African-inspired kente cloth attire I had seen in the States, but hers was an intricately meshed pattern of black and white, the traditional Xhosa colors.
p. 166.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(tradition) a long-established or previously long-established practice or belief
and/or:
one or more practices, beliefs, or stories passed down through generations within a specific culture or group - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)