Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Borden, Ma Barker, and Carry Nation among others. Those who dutifully did their compulsory summer reading and bought a copy of Ragtime can find a shot of Evelyn Nesbit on the stand at Harry K. Thaw's murder trial and discover what all the fuss was about. Mother's Younger Brother should have stayed in the closet. "Noble Causes" documents political activists from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Angela Davis. This is the only section where the photographs just don't do their subjects justice; of the eighteen women included, all but two are seated quietly, staring passively into space...
...managed. Most of the plot is crammed into the first act, yet there is unnecessary repetition. Here too characters inform others of things already known to the hearers, while nobody ever tells anyone else--or us--why the animosity developed between the evil older brother Oliver and the good younger brother Orlando...
Thus Carter routinely modulates his pitch, employing a delicate rising and falling of his voice that results in an almost singsong effect. Another Gulf coastal plain element: he drops what linguists call postvocalic rs in such words as go-phuh (gopher) and Cot-tuh. According to Pederson, however, the younger generation of Gulf coastal plains people, who have been exposed to accentless network television and modern speech courses, pronounce...
...quarry where the mass abduction ended. On his estate, 29 miles distant, police found a virtual junkyard-100 vehicles, including several wrecked police cars, a fire engine, assorted trucks and vans, and a tractor that could have been used to tow around the underground trailer; apparently the younger Woods liked to collect and restore the wrecks. His father's only public comment: "I was told by the sheriffs office not to say whether I have one son or ten sons...
Rothenberg is equally optimistic about Jewish society in Israel. "Within two or three generations you will see intermarriage between European and Oriental Jews. Remember that we are much younger than you are --it is necessary to understand that these processes are long, and we are a young country..." But he sees no end to the separation of Arabs and Jews. "Living within one nation we are two separate nations of Arabs and Jews...