Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, it's interesting because I was a child running around with my mother working at the White House for Reagan when I was little, so I have a very a childlike, but very strong, idea of his physical presence as what a President should...
...slowly shortening afternoons. It's an essential transition, I've realized. A transition that a freshman at a place like Harvard can easily miss. As a sophomore, it's as if my eyes have been reopened to the autumn that I loved as a child...
...Public schools are the crucible of democracy. It is a shame that in our rich nation no school has educated every child for high achievement," she said. "I hope more young people will become teachers and see these problems as a challenge...
HERO WORSHIP Until now there has been very little research on what kind of images of American men are conveyed by the media to teenage viewers. A new study by the child-advocacy group Children Now reveals that 74% of men portrayed in movies and on television take part in such antisocial behavior as ridiculing, being aggressive or carrying out defiant acts...
...followed advances in vision-correcting surgery for more than a decade. My eyes were awful. I had glasses as a young child, contacts as a teenager, but lately I could wear only an exotic and costly kind of lens. Glasses didn't work as well. Allergy season was a nightmare. And yes, I had always dreamed of being able to wake up and read the clock across the room, to swim and see who was hanging around poolside. But I was also apprehensive--bad eyes are better than worse eyes, and there were some early horror stories...