Word: brat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Raised as an Army brat, the son of a major, Bill Lindsey was 25 and wore a beard and ponytail when he first came to Citrus Park twelve years ago. The civil rights movement had convinced him that, "you know, you're supposed to be doing something." So he had joined VISTA, the domestic Peace Corps, which assigned him to Fort Lauderdale, just to "observe." A passing policeman questioned him about why he was living in a tough black neighborhood and added a warning that he would "be dead in three days...
...ebullient, irksome, heroic, and at times vindictive. Like most great characters, she was inconsistent. As a young girl she acted like an old lady, and as one of the fabled elders of this century she could be a coquette and even, as one of her friends said, 'a brat.' What made her unique was her energy and her ability to make the most of everything, even hurricanes, volcanoes and fractured bones. Because she was so chronically excited, she was exciting, and the excitement was contagious." -Margaret Mead: A Life
...boyish-looking Reed, who was nicknamed "the Brat" early in his 19-year Citicorp career, seemed like a long shot to be chairman because the consumer division he had directed since 1974 was a big money loser. Prodded by Wriston, Reed had moved aggressively to open consumer-loan offices from coast to coast. He had acquired the Carte Blanche and Diners Club credit-card companies and signed up 2 million new customers across the U.S. for Visa cards...
Even so, the breakup is almost like a divorce in the family for Brown. A native of Richmond, he is a Bell brat. His mother had been a Bell operator before getting married, and his father spent 37 years with the company, eventually rising to district traffic manager in Richmond. While earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Virginia, Brown worked two summers as an AT&T ditchdigger and cable layer, making $13 a week. After joining the Navy during World War II and serving as a radioman in the Pacific Fleet, he became...
After growing up as an Air Force brat, Wheat graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa. He settled in Kansas City in 1972 to take a job as an economist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 1976 Wheat was elected to the Missouri general assembly. During his six-year tenure, he was elected chairman of the 19-member black caucus and pushed legislation benefiting his inner-city constituents, including a tax-abatement plan to spur rehabilitation of substandard housing. Says he: "I had a lot of frustrations and disappointments, but my idealism survived...