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Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.
Amanda Foreman
Women
Pride
Practice
Out
Kind
Invaded
Only
Fact
Performed
Identity
Became
Impulse
After
Which
China
Chinese
Shorthand
Turned
Ethnic
Expression
Fashionable
Started
For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.
Amanda Foreman
War
Independence
Finally
Winning
Had
Contained
Napoleon
Became
Greatest
Real
America
Real War
Which
Gained
While
Against
Britain
I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways.
Amanda Marshall
Me
Increasingly
Our
Ways
Signing
Columbia
Clear
Know
Became
Deal
Go
Did
After
Them
Separate
Agreed
Actually
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
Amanda Pays
Conversation
Say
Dining
Dining Room
Must
Red
Became
Very
Heated
Room
Painted
When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.
Amanda Seyfried
Work
Singing
Out
Obsessed
Course
Became
Got
Work Out
Then
Really
I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.
Amber Riley
Bullying
Best
Myself
School
Took
Type
High
Best Friend
High School
Had
Became
Because
Bully
Friend
Person
Experienced
Wanted
Personally
Separate
Stand
Who
Her
Associated
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
Aminatta Forna
Love
Memory
Theatre
Surgeon
Spent
Temporarily
Weeks
Operating
Became
Loved
Watching
Two
Two Weeks
I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
Amiri Baraka
Revolution
Changed
Our
Name
Became
Question
African
Roots
Whole
Aware
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
Amy Klobuchar
Sports
General
Writer
Football
He
Columnist
Him
Became
Up
Getting
Just
Grew
Literally
Younger
Then
Coaches
Dad
At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.
Amy Purdy
Life
Time
Day
Age
School
Job
Free
My Life
First
Control
Side
Independent
High
Table
High School
Could
Massage
Became
Felt
First Time
Go
Were
Hands
Graduated
Moved
Where
After
Place
Anywhere
Therapist
Needed
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
Ana Ivanovic
Education
Me
Parents
Further
Kind
Athlete
Both
Through
Became
Go
Surprise
Intellectual
Very
Expected
Themselves
Much
University
I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.
Ana Navarro
Before
Knew
Became
Because
Reagan
Republican
Ronald Reagan
Even
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
Anatoly Chubais
Young
Immediately
Adopted
Scholars
Became
Permitted
Officially
Committee
Plan
Should
Each
Chairman
University
Like Tamil audiences, the Telugus, too, are welcoming of novelty. The fact that 'Arjun Reddy,' which had no regular songs, became such a big hit, says it all.
Andrea Jeremiah
Big
Too
Says
Fact
Had
Songs
Like
Welcoming
Became
Audiences
Big Hit
Hit
Which
Regular
Novelty
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
Andrea Jung
Learning
Old
First
Beginning
Months
Something
More
Firm
Like
Economy
Became
Learning Curve
Makes
Occurs
Traditional
Branded
Hit
Stocks
Six
Curve
CEO
Your
Fast
Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.
Andrew Buchan
Half
Bad
Dream
Became
Got
Get
Them
Then
Acting
Show
Initially
I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.
Andrew Cherng
People
Desperate
Back
Never
Attentive
Come
Became
Because
Leave
Very
Customers
When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.
Andrew J. Feustel
Space
Old
Moon
Older
Astronaut
About
Something
Guys
Adult
Like
Fairly
Became
Got
Were
Years
Up
Did
Going
Just
Common
Grew
To The Moon
Younger
Traveling
Believing
Humans
Imagined
I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.
Andrew Lansley
World
Conservative
Party
Conservative Party
Late
Our
See
Could
Had
Economy
Became
Because
Labour
Transformed
Standing
Compared
Britain
That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.
Andrew Lincoln
You
People
Hoped
Would
Find
Restaurants
Able
About
Something
Excitement
Talk
Identification
Became
Always
Escape
Bars
Actor
No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Government
Failure
Confused
Made
Argument
Saved
Market
Severe
Crisis
Has-Been
About
Uncertainty
Winners
Remarkable
Had
No-One
Picking
Investors
Became
Because
Losers
Been
Role
Whether
Might
Created
Less
Deserved
Suggested
The economic meltdown that would define every aspect of Obama's economy came to a head well before he became president, of course, and so did the legislation that would be the basis for everything that came after.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Before
Every
President
Everything
Define
Meltdown
Obama
Would
Would-Be
Economic
He
Head
Economy
Well
Course
Became
Came
Did
Legislation
After
Aspect
Basis
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Andrew Wyeth
Me
History
Wonderful
World
Father
Active
Imagination
Those
Would
Shakespeare
Tales
Aloud
Read
Reader
Became
Very
After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.
Andrew Yang
Law
School
Lawyer
Corporate
City
Law School
Brown
New
Became
York
Graduating
New York
New York City
After
I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.
Andrew Zimmern
Building
Lost
Sullivan
Months
Became
Manhattan
Apartment
Lower
Homeless
Street
Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'
Andy Biersack
Life
Christmas
Time
Family
Me
Old
Every
Entire
Entire Life
Songs
Perform
Force
Instruments
Became
Rock
Years
Going
Wanted
Then
Now
Ever
Watch
By The Time
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