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Word: younger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adolescents have always been violence prone, but there are horrendous crimes * being committed by even younger children. In Detroit last April, an eleven- year-old boy was charged with joining a 15-year-old in the rape of a two- year-old girl. The two allegedly left their victim in a garbage Dumpster. When he was only ten, a boy in San Antonio began sexually abusing three of his four younger sisters and continued until he was caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...tough being the youngest captain," Forman says. "I was younger than most of the girls on the team. It took a lot of adjusting on my part and the team's part...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Lighting Up the Volleyball Courts | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Although Vellucci's vote has never been a surething for the city's younger progressives, manysee his departure as one of the greatest dangersto their agenda...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Ping-Pong, Popsicles and Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Pauley, who has said "it seems the world is becoming less and less hospitable for humanity," declared she remained confident with the younger American generation. Young people, she said, have always had a certain power in their idealism...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, | Title: Pauley Addresses Graduates | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Wilson: Not as much as they do as when I was younger. I can remember receiving a letter from a college that had an opening that I was applying for that said, 'your credentials are wonderful, you should be an associate professor instead of an assistant professor, but we don't want to hire you [because you are a woman].' That would never happen today. Someone might think it, but one would never write it down. Things are much better. When I first went to Washington University I was not allowed to meet with the other administrators--they had never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's 'Quiet Diplomacy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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