Word: nine-year-old
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...heightened vignettes. It took a year for San Francisco's KRON to win the blessing of the California department of social services for its The Waiting Child feature. "There were a lot of questions about sensitivity and commitment," says News Director Pat Stevens. Since the feature began appearing seven months ago, however, the concern and involvement of News Anchor Rita Channon have been amply evident; on several segments she has dabbed at her eyes while talking to a child. Says Joe Pecora, a suburban San Francisco social worker who placed a nine-year-old boy four months after...
...This year, for instance, marks the 25th anniversary of an extraordinary injustice. In 1958, a seven-year-old Fuzzy Simpson and nine-year-old Hanover Thompson were on their way home from a segregated school in Monroe, North Carolina. A white six-year-old was returning from her school at the same time, and when she got home she told her mother she had kissed Fuzzy...
...many, many more events, both historical and current, that demand further investigation and publication--the Black soldiers just returning from World War I who were lynched while still wearing their uniforms, the still-unsolved murders of 14 Black women in Boston over the last few years, the shooting of a nine-year-old Black girl by the Ku Klux Klan on the anniversary of Hitler's birthday--the list goes...
...attend a university like Harvard, that's the cream of the crop," he added, explaining that his nine-year-old son. Ray Jr., has "already decided to come here...
...hard at work at their computer consoles, their faces intent in the reflected greenish light of the video screens. An eight-year-old types instructions that bring forth on the screen a figure of the space shuttle Columbia, complete with desert landing strip and disposable booster rockets. A nine-year-old pointedly picks apart the logic of one of his teacher's programs. Three-year-olds who cannot yet speak in complete sentences bang away at their keyboards, conjuring up electronic squiggles and squares...