Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 16, and life in Peking was very hard indeed. I was so poorly equipped that I did not even have any underclothes. Although I had taken my family's best quilt with me, I still shivered with cold because its cotton wadding was worn thin from age. That season in Peking there were heavy sandstorms and the nights were dismal. I had not yet come to know politics. I had no notion of the significance of 'Kuomintang' and 'Communist Party.' All I knew was that I wanted to feed myself and that I adored...
...difficult for her to look after him. "Others" (unnamed) decided that she was no longer able to mother him. Against her pleadings "they" tore him away from her, refusing to tell her where he would be placed. The loss was profound, for he was very bright; at the age of three he could sing the Internationale from start to finish. She never found out where his abductors hid him nor did Mao. [Who the abductors were and why even...
...convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court disagreed with Nash, arguing that "his certainty is not shared by all commentators and scientists in the field." Unlike fingerprints, the court noted, spectrograms may vary according to such things as the speaker's health or age. And like a lie detector test there is a risk that the jury will give too much weight to such testimony. Though top courts in two states admit voiceprints as evidence, the court decided that Pennsylvania would not join them until there was "general acceptance" of the precision of voiceprints...
...million Americans currently out of work, more than half are under age 24, according to Carter. Joblessness among 16-to 19-year-olds runs 18% or more, v. a national average of 7.5%; in urban ghetto areas the figure skyrockets to 40%. To cut into this widespread unemployment, Carter offered a four-part program that contains something old, something new and more than a little borrowed from previous administrations. His proposals...
...Create a National Youth Conservation Corps, an updated version of the CCC. It would employ jobless Americans under age 24 in cleaning up the national and state parks and forests. It would spend $350 million over the next year and a half, creating 35,000 new jobs...