Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes this combination particularly shameful is that money can buy so much of the pleasure and freedom that ordinarily belong to the young. Poor children living in scary neighborhoods have to grow up fast. But affluent grownups can prolong their own childhoods through years of higher education and sheltered internships. They can spend money on therapies that explore the "inner child." They get to play too, well into the Centrum Silver years, at the kind of outdoor sports any kid would love. All of which is fine, except when these charming traits are combined with indifference toward the condition...
...Harvard community. Shouts of "The fraternities are coming!" echoed off the ivy-covered walls of this hallowed institution, and students cowered in fear of the imminent invasion of hordes of drunken frat boys. In fact, this school is so rabidly anti-fraternity that admitting you like them (or--gasp--belong to one) is almost akin to admitting to a loathsome disease...
Since special concentrators do not belong to a traditional department, Deborah Foster, the head tutor for special concentrators, must recommend a comparable concentration in which students should be judged, Waltman said...
...have faith in the power of youth. Hong Kong has a great resource of talent and energy," Wong said. "Its young citizens are proud to belong to Hong Kong...and will contribute to the resurgence of China...
...Every time you come in, they treat you like you belong," Mellen says...