Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still strapped to their seats. We had to get them out of there quick because we didn't want them to sink." Of the 18 people Randy saw pulled out of the water, about half had had their clothes blown off. One was a pretty girl in her early 20s. "I tried not to get a good look at them, at their faces," he says hesitantly. "I didn't have time to think about what I was seeing--we were out there looking for survivors. And by about 3 a.m., it became apparent there were none...
...increasingly bareknuckled--as in the effort to drive away New Otani's tour business. The number of organizers deployed by the federation has increased more than tenfold since 1990. And defying labor's stereotype as a bastion of old white males, the new organizers are mostly in their 20s and 30s, mostly female and, like Campos, increasingly from minority groups...
...20s, talkies had taken over; Fairbanks sounded flutey and looked older in them. In 1933 he and Pickford separated. The swashbuckler was 50; another Roosevelt with a big smile was giving America a Fairbanksian jolt of optimism, and Doug was disconsolate. He told his son Douglas Jr. (by then a film star himself), "I've done everything--twice." Not just two Zorro movies and two D'Artagnans, but two careers, two marriages, too much work and play. He said he wanted to die quickly...
...become a reliable pattern in American politics that when the plumbing breaks down, the superintendents appear promptly to fix it. Progressives in the teens and '20s tried to clean up the electoral process with the secret ballot and the direct election of Senators. In the 1960s smoke-filled rooms gave way to primary beauty pageants, and after Watergate, big-money contributors had to form PACs instead of flushing money directly to their candidates. The avowed goal is always the same: to ensure communion between the voters and their leaders...
...20s went off the cliff and pinwheeled onto the rocks below, a world economic crash that seemed a retribution for too much heedlessness and gin. By the time the '30s, W.H. Auden's "low, dishonest decade," gave out, the Nazis were spreading out all over Western civilization. And so on. The '40s--the first half of them given over to world war, the second half hardening into cold war and nuclear anxiety--did not make anyone want to linger...