Word: six-year-old
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...only unlovable; she is a kid you want to kick. "I don't usually get a cold," she says in a voice borrowed from an emery board. "I have leprosy." Her chief concern in life is finding some place to play doctor with Junior Phillips, her six-year-old boy friend. Like other little girls, Edith Ann dresses up-but she puts a doll under her dress so that she looks pregnant...
...From my personal experience, Raymond and Dennis Moore [July 10] are right about the dangers of too early schooling. My six-year-old did very well during two years of pre-kindergarten school, but by the time she reached kindergarten, she had had it with school and balked at going three mornings out of five...
When I arrived back in Belfast, two more British soldiers had been killed. In one battle, a Saracen armored car fired on snipers holed up behind a sandbagged wall between two apartment buildings. The snipers fled, and a few minutes later, a six-year-old girl walked among the people in front of the bullet-scarred flats playing a tape recording of the battle. "What really worries me," said one mother sadly, "is what this has done to our children...
...those who really need it, but from Fort Pickens near Pensacola to Sloppy Joe's in Key West, they assail those who they feel do not deserve it. "I see people going down to the welfare office with new automobiles and here's me driving a six-year-old car," protests Seminole County Deputy Sheriff William Chandler. "To me," adds St. Petersburg Motel Operator Robert Van Auker, "welfare is the most stinking thing there...
...delegates from black African nations. White Pretorians go there simply to meet blacks-something that they would not have dared to do even a year ago. Even more startling, Pretoria's hostesses now consider it a social must to have at least one black man at a party; as a result, the only resident black ambassador, Malawi's sherry-sipping, highly professional Joe Kachingwe, is being run ragged. Kachingwe's six-year-old daughter Chipo recently became the first black student admitted to an all-white primary school. When one right-wing weekly greeted the event with...