Word: schoolchild
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...take the long way after finding the gate locked at 8 p.m. It’s the shellshock of finding out that your House formal will not, in fact, have an open bar. It’s having to take a school bus to get there, like a common schoolchild...
...such places, conservatism is as much about individualism as anything else. It’s why the right to self-defense is sacred, it’s why as a schoolchild I was required to say not only the Pledge of Allegiance but also the Texas Pledge, it’s why the word “Pelosi” is a pejorative, it’s why individuals can see beyond the promises of the most well-intentioned legislation and ask more than, “What’s in it for me?” It?...
...biggest one-day loss in the stock market's history - makes it easy to get nostalgic. "The economy was good then," insists taxi driver Narongsak Iamsamorn, 39, who hasn't decided who to vote for this time round. "But now Vietnam is laughing at us. Even a schoolchild can tell you how bad our economy is." His fares have dropped by two-thirds since the coup. "I want Thaksin to come back and make Thailand better again," he says...
...Every schoolchild knows that milk is a natural source of the calcium needed to build strong bones and healthy teeth. Now grownups may also have a good reason to drink (fat-free) milk. A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that calcium may help protect adults from cancer of the large intestine, a sometimes fatal disease that has afflicted some 138,000 Americans this year--including President Reagan, who had surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his colon last July...
...Njal's Saga, known to every schoolchild, the hero is burned to death, and it falls to his son-in-law Kari to avenge the family. Coldly, he knocks off 15 of his enemies, but then suddenly the killing stops. He feels he has overdone it. He asks the pardon of his chief antagonist, and stability is restored. As it is in Hrafnkel's Saga, where, after the obligatory killings and counterkillings, the hero refuses to execute his archrival and chooses to re-establish the balance in the country...