Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times, A Childhood is a wondrous and fearful book--funny, too, as when Crews describes how people doctor mules to make them appear younger, concluding that "a farting mule is a good mule." But always he comes back to his central thesis: It was a hard time in a hard place, and lot of times the only way to find the courage to get by was to by-God want what you had more than the next fellow. The book ends, skipping forward 15 years, in 1956, with Crews just home from the Marine Corps, cropping tobacco with his cousins...
...glad we're starting off the schedule with some relatively easy schools--it gives our younger players a chance to develop some confidence," Stone said while watching freshman Cynthia Stanton nail down a victory in the second spot...
...going, and in that sense there is some camaraderie here. But although a lot of people may be sensitive, they still don't know what it's like to live in a family torn apart by alchoholism, by social disruption; people who don't have enough to eat, younger brothers and sisters, younger relatives with malnutrition in 1978. People here don't see the tragedy of it and how it can compel some one to try to do something about...
Both observation and involvement came naturally to Margaret Mead, who was born in 1901 in Philadelphia to parents who quite literally raised her to be a social scientist. She was only eight when she was assigned to observe and record her younger sisters' speech patterns. Mead's university training-she studied at New York's Barnard College and Columbia University under such anthropology giants as Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict-only refined her talents...
Despite the diversity of her interests, Mead remained a working anthropologist to the end. One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted. But in recent years Mead, who had survived malaria, three marriages, several miscarriages and years of native foods, found her health failing. "I know I can't live forever," she often said. "I'm just not ready...