Word: adulthoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moving from our adolescence to our adulthood,'' says Fournier, whose organization has five branch offices and 500 affiliated lawyers who do volunteer work around the country. "We want to institutionalize our work so we'll be here in 50 years.'' Increasingly too, the Christian-law groups are beginning to act in concert, most notably on a religion amendment to the Constitution, which they plan to unveil this month. Representative Ernest Jim Ishtook, a Republican from Oklahoma who will sponsor it in the House, expects the measure to have broad support. "Too many people have tried to create a new standard...
...standard set of college gear falls into several spheres, depending on your personal taste: "interesting artsy decorations" (German Expressionist prints, obscure band posters, Dali), "I'm holding out on adulthood toys" (Star Wars action figures, Muppet collectibles, the Magic 8 Ball, anything from the JFK Street level of Urban Outfitters), and "sexually suggestive paraphrenalia" (massage oil, Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, whips, handcuffs). Invite the person to sit down on the bed with you so that they can get a good look at your stuff, and let the good times roll...
Like butterflies or Apollo rockets, the careers of rock-'n'-roll superstars typically have multiple stages. In the first, the rock star sings powerfully and touchingly about the sweet pangs of adolescence and the seemingly endless , wait for adulthood. In Stage 2, the rock star screeches churlishly about the unbearable pain of megacelebrity and the seemingly endless wait for room service at the Four Seasons. And in the third and last stage, the rock star goes on MTV Unplugged and performs all the songs from the first and second stages, only this time with acoustic instruments...
...movement were really a tiny group, numbering perhaps 50, who, in Locke's view, represented "the Negro's cultural adolescence." Not only were their dreams of political advancement to remain unfulfilled, but in terms of formal literary achievement, they mostly failed to raise their art to its adulthood...
...years ago by Theodora Colborn, a zoologist with the World Wildlife Fund who did a study on the reproductive health of Great Lakes wildlife in the late 1980s. Colborn discovered that the young of 16 predator species, including fish, birds, reptiles and mammals, were failing to survive to adulthood or could not reproduce if they did. All the animals ate fish from the Great Lakes, which were contaminated with a variety of hormone-like chemicals...