Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hatchet Man. Indeed, Colson's entire career has been marked by the kind of unrelenting ambition that led him to become the White House hatchet man. As a teen-ager in Boston, he defiantly rejected a full scholarship at Harvard as he thought it too radical a university and because officials there told him, "No one has ever turned down a full scholarship at Harvard." He went to Brown instead. A man in a hurry, he became, at 22, the youngest company commander in the Marines. He married young and had three children (that marriage ended in divorce...
...woman on the pilgrimage grasped the chain-link fence and recalled with tears in her eyes how she had done the same thing as a girl 30 years before, wishing she were on the other side. Another woman, Nancy Shibata, 43, was a teen-ager at Tule Lake, where she met her future husband. "I was young enough so that I didn't feel bitter," she remembers. Today the barbed wire causes more wonder than woe. "To look at it after you're out-I said, 'Gee, we stayed in a place like that...
...last potentially employable person has a job, on the theory that the unemployed would produce enough goods and services to eliminate supply shortages. That idea is superficially attractive but would not work; labor markets just do not operate that way. Long before the last black woman or teen-ager found a job, severe shortages of skilled workers and the expense of hiring the unskilled would drastically lower productivity and cause totally unacceptable inflation...
...make-believe world of the penny arcade, pinball was once a game without peer. For a teen-ager with a pocketful of dimes, there was no better way to while away idle hours than maneuvering a steel ball through a maze of obstacles, while lights blinked and a noisy digital Scoreboard recorded points with a distinctive bong. But pinball, alas, lost some of its cachet in high-speed modern life-until 18 months ago when there appeared a new breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race...
Last November the Chicago Tribune documented many sickening cases of police brutality. Among the victims were a teen-ager who lost an eye after being wantonly slugged by a policeman, and a woman who gave birth to a deformed child after being pounded in the abdomen by a patrolman. The series of articles led to the indictments of four cops, whose cases are still pending...