Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the July jobless rate for adult males held steady at the June level of 6.7%, the unemployment rate among women rose, and now matches that of men. Joblessness among blacks jumped sharply, to 14.2%, while unemployment among teen-agers rose...
...Chicago locations, and he has an unmushy view of teen-age life. Grownups may feel a trifle odd stepping up to the box office for this one if unescorted by a child but, with one along, may find surprising dividends. My Bodyguard is a picture that an adult can take a youth to without feeling either patronizing or embarrassed. These days, that is a rarity...
...except a victim can truly understand the complete sense of helpless ness and despair that overcomes a once vigorous adult who is suddenly struck down by this devastating, if usually tem porary, ailment. The victim's world quickly shrinks, often limited at the onset to bed or couch. Work and household chores are almost totally ignored, and every movement is fraught with peril. Dressing becomes
...year-old boy, and shot them to death outside the hospital gate. A week later, Ugandan troops invaded the hospital and killed five staff members. The famine in Karamoja has broken down all sense of humanity and cooperation among the local people. Relief workers watched recently as adult men snatched chunks of meat out of the mouths of children gathered around the bony carcass of a freshly slaughtered cow. Says a missionary: "This is a microcosm of everything that can go wrong in Africa: no food, no security, no medicine. And it can only get worse...
Excerpt "Once in a while an adult said, 'Your grandfather built the railroad.' (Or 'Your grandfathers built the railroad. Plural and singular are by context.) We children believed that it was that very railroad, those trains, those tracks running past our house; our own giant grandfather had set those very logs into the ground, poured the iron for those very spikes with the big heads and pounded them until the heads spread like that, mere nails to him. He had built the railroad so that trains would thunder over us, on a street that inclined toward...