Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the kid asks what do I do instead of drugs, you need to have a positive answer," she said. "Nobody thinks to say what resources can we offer to poor inner-city kids...
...immediately began telling me how to improve my play. `You've got to start doing this and stop doing that,' he said--a typical short, Jewish kid telling a big guy what to do," Walton told the laughing audience at Temple Emmanuel. "Thank you, dear Abbie. You were the Celtics true sixth...
...hour or so a day signing baseball cards mailed to him by fans and sending them back in postpaid envelopes. He was joined by Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola, who pitched a 24-7 season last year. The chain link fence is some eight feet high, so kids tossed their books and balls over the top. After signing, the players threw the objects back over the fence, in one of Viola's favorite spring rituals. "I was a shy kid," remembers the Long Island native, "so I had my mom ask for Rick Barry's autograph at a Nets...
Some psychologists worry about the ill effects of such nonconformity. Says family psychologist Alan D. Entin: "Kids get teased a lot when they have to explain the peculiarities of their family. The problem is that a kid knows when he or she is weird." Would the children of a marriage between, say, Jeremiah Shostak-Fielding and Maribel Johnson-Drexler ever learn to spell their full surname, provided that their parents could ever agree on just what it should be? And would that alliance completely unhinge data banks...
...Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave up his last name and took his wife's. Joel is now a Wolfson, just like his wife and their child...