Word: misters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entertainment." Researchers also point to unstable families, low self-esteem and a societal obsession with money. "At the casinos you feel very important," says Rich of Bethesda, Md., a young recovering addict. "When you're spending money at the tables, they give you free drinks and call you Mister...
...KILLING MISTER WATSON by Peter Matthiessen...
...good a farmer as has ever cleared a piece of ground; he could make anything grow." Henry Thompson marvels at his skill on the waters: "One of the best boatmen on this coast." And lest anyone get the idea the man's skills were laboriously acquired, Thompson adds, "Mister E.J. Watson could hear a frog fart in a hurricane...
...baby boomers had a placid childhood in the 1950s, which helped inspire them to start their revolution, today's twentysomething generation grew up in a time of drugs, divorce and economic strain. They virtually reared themselves. TV provided the surrogate parenting, and Ronald Reagan starred as the real-life Mister Rogers, dispensing reassurance during their troubled adolescence. Reagan's message: problems can be shelved until later. A prime characteristic of today's young adults is their desire to avoid risk, pain and rapid change. They feel paralyzed by the social problems they see as their inheritance: racial strife, homelessness, AIDS...
...left office, Whitney was indicted for selling stock on insufficient capital. He was $6 million short, even after he dipped into funds of the New York Yacht Club, where he was treasurer. Whitney was conveyed to Sing Sing. He was said to be the only inmate ever called Mister by fellow prisoners and wardens...