Word: four-year-old
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...University of Wisconsin, long a fount of extreme liberalism, the four-year-old Conservative Club is a deliberately "small and articulate" group of 45 icon smashers. Members must not only master the works of conservative writers but also the art of meticulous grooming. In contrast to sweatered classmates, they wear suits and ties to class, which also sets them apart from liberal professors in old sports jackets...
Fasting on Sunday. She was born 304 years ago in the Iroquoist village of Ossernenon, now Auriesville, N.Y. Her father, Kenheronkwa, was a Mohawk chief, her mother, Kahenta, an Algonquin whom the Mohawks had taken captive. Smallpox killed both her parents and left four-year-old Tekakwitha ("One who puts things in order") badly scarred and weakened for life...
Santo Nino's farm-to-market road is part of a quiet revolution in the Philippines' 24,000 rural villages. Bureaucratically known as PACD (for office of the Presidential Assistant on Community Development) and financed by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government, the four-year-old village-improvement program shines out in startling contrast to the grubby corruption that has come to dominate Philippine public life once again under the regime of indulgent President Carlos Garcia...
...deep-carpeted office, Che tosses his Luger onto the long, cluttered desk, calls in the two Chilean Marxists who are his main economic advisers, and buckles down to work. His wife Aleida serves as his secretary, while his ex-wife Hilda, having moved to Havana with their four-year-old daughter, works at the Che-influenced Agrarian Reform Institute...
...sickness of leftism" that Lenin denounced in some of his party's more hotheaded "sectarians" in the early days of the revolution 40 years ago. Now, as then, said Soviet Communism's official mouthpiece, history cannot be hustled. "Trying to anticipate the results of fully matured Communism" by great leaps forward and by rushing to set up communes, said Pravda witheringly, "is like trying to teach higher mathematics to a four-year-old child...