Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been soldiering with this lost patrol since we were kids: the gruff but caring sergeant, preternaturally wise in the ways of the enemy and the equally hostile terrain; the street wisecracking kid; the slow-drawling bumpkin; a man called Hammer and another called Pretty Boy. And, of course, a lieutenant who is both green and ambitious and therefore more dangerous to friend than foe. Such characters have been AWOL from most movies about Viet Nam, and 84 Charlie MoPic would have curiosity value if it only brought them back and restored them to their chief role: demonstrating the masculine...
...Babbit related his experience of standing in line with his young son at a shelter for the homeless. When they encountered a 12-year-old kid by himself, the son turned to Babbit in amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before...
...kid up front shouted out, 'That's not what we're voting on!' The chant of Vote! Vote!!' went up again...
...Harvard spectator did not tolerate a Gopher infiltrator. When a young boy in Gopher grab stood on the stairs in the Harvard section, the Crimson fan turned to the kid and snapped, "Don't you have someplace to go? Like...
What makes student athletes especially vulnerable to temptation is that many consider themselves underpaid professionals who deserve whatever comes their way. "Once you get out on the floor, it's a job, and you expect to get paid," says former UNLV player Eldridge Hudson. "If a kid is busting his ass on the court, if somebody wants to buy him a car, let him have it." Hudson always hoped to share his good fortune with his family. "Me being a star, I thought my mother deserved a Mercedes." While in school, Hudson said, he had a private apartment and drove...