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Word: agers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weight reduction gimmick, including amphetamines, without success. That was only five months ago. Now the 6 ft. 4 in. Hillier is down to a trim 200 lbs., feels so good he wants to start skiing and, patting his new flat stomach, boasts: "I have the libido of a teen-ager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dieting by Starving | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...Pull 'er up a tad, please, mister," said the nonchalant teen-ager pumping gas in a Union 76 service station off Interstate 75 near Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Just a Tad Different | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...three years at Hyde, my daughter has grown from a spoiled, rebellious teen-ager into an independent young woman of conscience and great promise. Humiliation is not "routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 30, 1976 | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...final decision, which is to be a success on his own suffocatingly modest terms, is conveyed with a hint of melancholy but more than a suggestion of approval. Lifeguard is winningly acted-by Elliott and, especially, by Archer and Kathleen Quinlan, who appears as an infatuated teen-ager-but the people who put it all together may, like their hero, have spent a little too much time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sink or Swim | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

Asks J.B. Satterthwaite, retired head of the English department at Groton School in Groton, Mass.: "If a teen-ager is publicly humiliated, does this build his character? Does it build the character of other students who are encouraged to take part in such a show?" The school's first teacher, Ray Fisher, who quit because Gauld permitted no disagreement with his own hawkish views on Viet Nam, charges that Gauld "is completely obsessed. You find that the kids are in effect brainwashed." Doris Vladimiroff, director of HEW'S Upward Bound program in Maine, whose son went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School of Hard Knocks | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

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