Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degrees during the summer. There are no toilets in the fields. Drinking water is allotted according to the number of bushels picked. The number is arbitrary depending upon the foreman's mood. The migrants live in tents, the regulars in long tin huts. By the time most of the children are 12 years old, they've quit school and work with their parents in the fields. Nobody earns more than $1.40 per hour picking grapes...
Returning students had, Hayes said, found that their apartments-subleased to hippies over the summer-were in shambles. He also had several letters from parents of high-school students in the Cambridge area, expressing concern over their children's associations with hippies...
...murdered children's bones...
...young are very important, their political opinions are the least important thing about them." Yet Bobby's capacity "for exaggerating and romanticizing youth's role" is so great that sometimes "it is hard to say whether Kennedy is seeking the presidency or the leadership of a new Children's Crusade...
...member of the Swedish royal family and famed Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began to write the poems that can be seen, in her own words...