Word: ten-year-old
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...people prepared, so did the government. It imposed a 48-hour curfew to limit street demonstrations. Ironically, the curfew made Chile's 24-hour general strike last week far more effective than widespread street rioting would have been. Fed up with the ten-year-old regime of General Augusto Pinochet, thousands of Chileans kept their children home from school to protest their country's 30% unemployment and 30% inflation. Public transportation was scarce, and a majority of truckers stayed off the roads. After the Santiago Retailers Association joined the protest, most stores closed their doors. At nightfall...
...good years, Western Europe exploited and ignored its minorities, but the long-running recession seems to have stirred a particularly malignant demon in the Continent's psyche. In France last month, a dispute over extensive layoffs at a Peugeot factory outside Paris degenerated into three days of racial violence that left 120 people injured. The clashes pitted striking workers (mostly immigrants) against those still holding jobs (mostly Frenchmen). More than 20 immigrants have been killed or wounded in other incidents in France in the past year. At least seven, including a ten-year-old boy, were victims of snipers...
...Almsgiving from the population reached a peak during the religious holidays; but it was continual all through the year, and sometimes took the form of money handed to the convicts as they shuffled through the streets of Omsk in a work convoy. The first time Dostoevsky received alms in this way was 'soon after my arrival in prison.' A ten-year-old girl-the daughter of a young soldier, who had seen Dostoevsky in the army hospital when she came to visit her dying father-passed him walking under escort and ran back to give him a coin...
...blackface and with the priorities reversed. Its subject is the aspirations and frustrations of the black middle class. Daddy (Samuel E. Wright) is a successful lawyer, living in a Manhattan duplex with his wife Ginnie (Hattie Winston), their 13-year-old daughter Emma (Marline Allard) and their ten-year-old son Willie (Alfonso Ribeiro). Emma wants to be an attorney; Willie just gotta dance, under the eager tutorial eye of his raffish uncle Dipsey (Hinton Battle). If Dad is willing to indulge Emma's career goal, he is adamant that Willie will never put on taps. "We didn...
...ten-year-old to another, on a Manhattan subway...