Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physically dead . . . We're not going to permit people like greedy lawyers to destroy us. I'm quite willing to break some lawyers' legs and tell them that next time I'll break your wife's legs and then I'll cut your kid...
...time, families see themselves as transients with no real roots, and wives and children are viewed as dependents, marginal to the all-male authoritarian structure of the military. Children move from school to school so frequently that "they have to break into peer groups repeatedly as the 'new kid' and are often the school's scapegoat." According to LaGrone, part of the problem is not the military's fault: the Army life attracts men from authoritarian families, who pass on harsh child-rearing behavior to their sons and daughters...
...unsympathetic to the demands of a high-level program. During Penders's four years at Columbia, there were three different admissions directors. "One guy thought basketball was great and another didn't know where the gym was," he notes. "Harvard's not afraid to take a gamble on a kid," Penders adds. "At Columbia, I felt the admissions office was always worrying about what the rest of the league would think. At Harvard they don't give a darn...
...hour before the ceremony begins, the debutante dressing room is steeped in chiffon clouds. Nineteen girls are sliding into slips, blowdrying hair, jostling each other with kid-gloved elbows. Some have brought maids who, in rushing to help their mistresses, nearly bowl the other girls over. The gowns sparkle and rustle and gleam, all as white as the driven snow. One girl is sporting a copy of her mother's wedding dress, another the family pearls. The third wears Grandma's lace-trimmed gloves and no bra.2
...winner to tutor their children. "It was pretty primitive compared to what I'm doing now," Kaplan said recently during an interview. "Forty years ago there were no standardized tests. The big thing was grade-point average, so I tutored in the three R's." Kaplan's engaging whiz-kid personality rubbed off on his clients--his reputation grew to the point where he was tutoring 200 students on a one-to-one basis...