Word: six-year-old
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Consider the case of Karen Grant of Goldsboro, North Carolina. She took her three sons, ages 13, 10 and 6, to the local library, and while she was helping the older boys find books, the six-year-old began browsing through a children's picture book called Daddy's Roommate, a book by Michael Willhoite written in the voice of a young boy whose parents divorce and whose father subsequently sets up housekeeping with his gay lover. The incident has created a storm and divided Goldsboro. The Grants call the book "antifamily" and claim among other things that it trivializes...
...April 1989, and Gore, already mulling another presidential race, was leaving Baltimore's Memorial Stadium after taking his six-year-old son Albert III to watch the Orioles. Suddenly the boy darted out of his father's grasp -- and into the postgame traffic. A car struck young Albert, throwing him 30 feet into the air. By the time Gore reached his son's side, the child was lying in a gutter, without breath or pulse, suffering from massive internal injuries. The Senator just held his only son and prayed...
...six-year-old bargaining session known as the Uruguay Round of GATT, the 107-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is in trouble. Washington and the E.C. are locked in a quarrel over how much Europe will be allowed to subsidize its farmers and thus give them an advantage over everyone from American wheat growers to Third World farmers trying to produce cash crops for foreign markets. There are fears that unless something is done to break the stalemate, the world will slip into commercial darkness and political tension. Warns GATT's director general Arthur Dunkel: "There will...
...upon-a-time quality. He was born in a remote hill town outside Naples, the son of an impoverished farmer. In his autobiography he recounts that when he was nine, his parents were distraught because they could not afford a pair of traditional white Communion slippers for his six-year-old sister. The afternoon before the event, Ferragamo borrowed tools from a friendly local cobbler and stayed up all night making a pair of perfect white canvas shoes for his sister...
...Israeli army camp and hacked three soldiers to death. Two days later in southern Lebanon, Israeli Apache helicopters fired three missiles on the motorcade of Sheik Abbas Musawi, leader of the Iranian- backed Hizballah. The long-planned strike killed not only Musawi but also his wife and six-year-old son. From there, hostilities spiraled rapidly. Hizballah launched scores of Katyusha rockets into Israel's self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon and into the Galilee panhandle of Israel proper. The Jewish state fired back on about 20 Lebanese villages, then sent a column of armored vehicles beyond the security...