Word: six-year-old
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...suburb of Washington, D.C., a six-year-old child was surprised to find that his playmate's mother was at home one noon, preparing lunch. The six-year-old piped up: "What's the matter with your mother? Can't she work...
...possible that the six-year-old, $168 million generator keeps breaking down because she simply is too big and too complicated. After the 1970 trip-out, for example, engineers had to remove each of the 188,000 layers of sheet iron composing Allis' 325-ton stator, which surrounds the rotor, then rebuild the stator in an air-conditioned, dust-free enclosure, because of the sensitivity of the equipment...
...years as a reporter and assistant city editor on the Minneapolis Tribune before coming to TIME in 1960. "Ed has the most professional of gifts: the ability to take an enormous quantity of complicated material and make swift, readable and often eloquent sense of it," says Nation Senior Editor Jason McManus. Quiet, understated and equipped with a wry sense of humor, Magnuson at the end of each week in Manhattan drives 260 miles to his 22-acre farm in Sutton, N.H., in time to join his wife Mae, their two teen-age daughters and six-year-old...
...slow process. We are in a transitional stage now; many of the students are beginning to settle down and stick with projects for a longer time." He is right. In spite of-and often because of-the bedlam, recognizable learning is taking place. One six-year-old did little but play for six months. Finally he realized that he wanted to learn to read; now he is churning through armloads of library books...
Kosinski, 37, has lived through-and now makes use of-some of the strongest direct experience that this century has had to offer. Like the six-year-old boy in The Painted Bird, he was separated from his Jewish parents during World War II and survived as a waif in the Polish countryside. Like Chance, he suffered a physical injury that left him mute for five years. After the war he was reunited with his parents and placed in a school for the handicapped...