Word: sons
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...thought he was at all unstable," said former Supervisor Terry François. "Just a normal young father," added another acquaintance. Intensely competitive, White had been captain of both the baseball and football teams and a Golden Gloves boxer while attending San Francisco's Woodrow Wilson High School. Son of a San Francisco fireman, he served in Viet Nam, then worked 3½ years as a policeman. He somehow managed to buy first an $8,000 Jaguar, then a $15,000 Porsche, before taking a leave of absence to hitchhike through the U.S. After joining the fire department...
Mayor Moscone, whose father had been a guard at San Quentin and once showed his young son the gas chamber, had long opposed the death penalty. Last week the charges lodged against Dan White were carefully crafted to permit a court to decree that he must die for those murderous moments at city hall...
HARRY CREWS' father worked for seven years in the 1920s building a road through the Everglades; the first part of A Childhood concerns itself with a son imagining what his father, whom he never knew, might have thought about an Indian woman his father had known in the swamps: "He had not wanted her, but they had been in the swamp for three years. They worked around the clock, and if they weren't working or sleeping, their time was pretty much spent drinking or fighting or shooting gators. So since he could not have what he wanted, he tried...
...take any good piece of business -- whether they're students or not," Hewitt says, "and these are nice kids, very serious-minded. They run around and make some noise and have a little more energy than I do but they're nice kids -- I hope my son grows up like them...
That woman and her son are hardly the paranoid exceptions. Parents in suburban and middle-class areas across the country have been petitioning their local school boards to institute SAT prep courses as part of the normal high school curriculum. Unlike inner-city areas, where learning itself is a problem, these students allegedly receive an excellent education. In Greenwich, Conn, a wealthy New York suburb, almost half the town's tax revenue goes to schools; indeed, realtors use the superiority of the Greenwich system as a main selling point. Yet the average SAT score at Greenwich High School continues...