Word: seven-year-old
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...children have been used in numerous studies. A report published in 1963 showed that the death rate of infants born to mothers who had smoked during pregnancy was significantly higher (26%) than that of infants born to nonsmokers. In 1969 a follow-up survey demonstrated that the seven-year-old children of mothers who had smoked during pregnancy were on an average shorter in height and also had more problems in school than seven-year-olds born to nonsmokers...
...pinched his ample jowls and told him he was cute, he would probably kick you in the shins. Not that Mason Reese, a red-headed seven-year-old who looks uncannily like a 3-ft., 8-in. Arthur Godfrey, is an unfriendly chap. It is simply that Mason does not like to be embarrassed. All that fuss about his being on TV commercials, for example. When other kids recognize him on the street, he would rather play ball than sign autographs. He is suspicious of interviews. He squinted up at one reporter and said, "You're here to look...
...every day. I get off work at 5:30 and have to be here at 6:30. We don't have any bathrooms we can use. But the teachers are interested in us, so it's worth it." Silva decided to come to Mobral because his seven-year-old can already read and write. "He's proud of me, and when he sees how hard I work, it encourages him to work hard...
...Noyes believes that this "life review" is an emotional defense against the thought of extinction; apparently deprived of his future, a dying person concentrates his vital energy on recapturing what was precious to him in the past. Describing his personal experience, Heim wrote: "I saw myself as a seven-year-old boy going to school, then in the fourth-grade classroom with my beloved teacher Weisz. I acted out my life as though I were on a stage upon which I looked down from the highest gallery in the theatre...My sisters and especially my wonderful mother...
...this mass of Black people began to move out the park and down the hill. On the sidewalk to the left, a Boy Scout troop--little white boys--marched up the hill. Standing over the whole scene, on the wall surrounding the park, a seven-year-old Black manchild raises his small bony fist as high...