Word: young
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southeast Asian politicians had better listen to the experts who claim that brain damage in the young could result from not eating well and enough. Otherwise, there will be stunted students and stupid soldiers by the year 2000. Mario Ramos Pasay-an De Kalb...
...once was a rather shy and indecisive young princeling, installed on his throne by the foreigners who had forced his humbly born father to abdicate. He became an enormously wealthy monarch, Shah of Iran, King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, who dreamed of creating an economic and military superpower that would recall the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great. He developed an imperial ego to match his vision, placing his crown on his own head like Napoleon, dismissing all opposition as "the blah-blahs of armchair critics" and boasting that "nobody influences me, nobody...
Back at Phnom-Penh's only orphanage, formerly a Catholic school, we saw young victims of Cambodia's agony. The guides trotted out winsome Sophon, 4, whose father, a captain in Lon Nol's army, was killed by Pol Pot's forces. Now she listlessly waved her arms as she sang a song titled The Day They Killed My Father. At the end, when she described her father's death, she drew a forefinger across her throat, as if to slash...
...least he died for something," she prattled on. She was young and talked too much. She knew the world. She read all the books, knew all the names. "Just give ME a gun...I'll go and blow them all away. He's crazy. He's a lunatic and he's gonna take 50 innocent lives...
...course, LSAT scores, like all results from standardized tests, are secret, dark wonders not meant for overt discussion. After all, phone lines might be bugged and Third World undercover agents could be listening, hoping to gain valuable information about the nation's young people by hearing their test scores...