Word: ager
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people left in Jucuarán, 80 miles southeast of the capital, the face of El Salvador's revolution belongs to an armed teen-ager with a weakness for American pop. Yet, difficult as it may be to believe, 8,000 guerrillas, many of them just boys, continue to confound the country's U.S.-trained army of 25,500. Since September, when they began their latest offensive, the insurgents have attacked 128 towns and come to dominate six of the nation's 14 provinces. Though the country is in no imminent danger of falling, the momentum...
...easily with the private compulsions of a born-again Jew who happens to be a Hollywood hot shot. On the evidence of Yentl, she has been other women as well: the adoring child listening to her papa, and now telling him what she has learned; the gawky teen-ager eyeing her less gifted rivals; the budding artist stretching the limits of craft and ego; the novice director showing tact and assurance behind the camera; the successful career woman using her power to realize a dream. Three cheers for chutzpah! -By Richard Corliss
...were often viciously opposed. Flynn shares their basic opposition, but he was never allied with the most demagogic and plainly racist of the antibusing politicians, most of whom have been voted out of office. In 1980, Flynn was the only white politician at the funeral of a black teen-ager shot by Boston police...
...next millennium is not so far off: a child born this year will still be a child, just a teenager, in the year 2000. And judging by the U.S. Census Bureau's newest calculations, that turn-of-the-century teen-ager more likely than not will be a sun-drenched type who goes around chirping, "Fer shure...
...would have been thought outlandish ten years ago. Rafting the Colorado River now seems almost sedentary, and trekking in the Himalayas is no more than an extended outing. Sane and prudent citizens sign up for ice-climbing lessons and for bicycle tours across China. Your neighbor's teen-ager hang-glides. It is hardly worth mentioning when a 50-year-old man or woman runs a marathon, although the triathlon, which may consist of a long swim, a bike race and a complete running marathon on the same day, still raises a few eyebrows...