Word: twos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previously-specified days so that all students can take advantage of the forms. Nearly eighty-five ninety-sevenths of those who bother filling out the forms hail and applaud their professors and teaching fellows, bestowing fours and fives upon them with reckless abandon. Only a handful bother with twos or threes and only the tiniest smattering of students dare to bubble in a one. A large minority of respondents do not even write any comments at all, preferring to leave future students to their unadvised fates...
...guys in his pictures look as if their nickname was Mugsy. As one of the most unabashed tabloid-news photographers, Weegee was also supremely good at car crashes, dazed escapees from tenement fires, transvestites being hustled out of paddy wagons, and Peeping Tom shots of lovers wrestling in twos (and threes!) on the nighttime beach at Coney Island...
...adhere to that philosophy during the Terrible Twos, it doesn't surprise your kids if you stick with it through the ticklish questions of sex, drugs and alcohol. It's at these times that children are uppity enough to ask, and some parents are foolish enough to reveal, what they did as adolescents. This is a big mistake in the drug wars. I asked myself: "Did hypocrisy matter when Courtney was little?" Absolutely not. Without any reference to my own early years of experimenting with electricity, I insisted that she not stick her curious fingers into electric sockets...
...Parents may no longer chalk up a bad case of the "TERRIBLE TWOS" to a kid's inherent temperament. Researchers now say the fault may lie with the adults. Parents with high levels of anxiety, hostility and work stress are more likely to produce tear-your-hair-out two-year-olds...
...national rejoicing; the succession was secure and the perfect family established. Charles was crazy about him. In a burbling letter to a friend he wrote, "He really does look surprisingly appetizing and has sausage fingers just like mine." Dad took over baby-bathing duties enthusiastically, but when the terrible twos struck, the bathroom became a war room. Wills started breaking things, flushing his father's shoes down the toilet, and for the next few years was obstreperous and mouthy...