Word: agerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hiding out in his own Southern California suburb. When he confronts the fugitive, the youth is disappointed by the old man's accent: "It didn't sound . . . well, authentic. Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes sounded more like a Nazi than Dussander did." Perhaps a teen-ager might find a TV sitcom more vividly real than a phenome non that predated his birth. But members of his immediate family are judged in the same way: "Dick Bowden, Todd's father, looked remarkably like a movie and TV actor named Lloyd Bochner." When Todd finds himself...
Last month in New York City, a 16-year-old bank robber was dashing down the street clutching a bag of stolen cash when it suddenly exploded, spewing tear gas and splattering the young bandit with red dye. Within minutes the bleary-eyed and brightly marked teen-ager was apprehended. His stickup had been foiled by a tiny package that one bank manager calls "the state of the art in bank security systems...
...father was in partnership with Cosimo Matassa, who owned the only big recording studio in New Orleans. In the '40s they would deliver records to black hotels that had juke boxes in the rooms. My father would give me all the old 78s. When I was a teen-ager he got me a work permit so I could work clubs. He knew I'd sneak out and not go to school anyway. So rather than have me get a prison record, he'd just say, 'Well, go ahead and do it if you're going...
...able to judge not only the was able to judge not only the creature's height but also its sex and age: male, about 16 or 17 years old. From markings showing where the muscles were attached to the bone, he also determined that this ancient teen-ager walked upright...
...antisalt advocates fear that the general public will still not cut down on sodium. Says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest: "It is unlikely that the school-age child whose father or mother has hypertension will scrutinize labels, or the black teen-ager whose blood pressure is slightly above normal, or the 35-year-old trucker whose diet consists largely of convenience and restaurant foods...