Word: younger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's right," says Jamie. "He's got the arithmetic right. He'll be 66 in eight years -- three years younger than Ronald Reagan was when he became President...
...that Bush and Baker go way back only begins to describe their closeness. Bush brought Baker into politics and firmly believes he would not ^ have become President without him. Nevertheless, the President speaks of Baker as his brother -- his "younger brother," a diminution that signals a certain competitiveness. "It's not unjustified for him to think of me as his protege," says Baker. "But then you have to consider that I took off a lot of time and lost a lot of income working for him in the '80 campaign. That kind of squared the circle. And remember, when...
...When I was a little bit younger, all I dreamed about was playing in the Beanpot," Hughes said. "I can remember watching so many games in the stands and thinking about being there...
This Boy's Life proves good enough to be unforgettable. Tobias Wolff, 43, is the author of two collections of stories and The Barracks Thief (1984), a critically acclaimed novella. He is also the younger brother of Geoffrey Wolff, whose own memoir, The Duke of Deception (1979), introduced tens of thousands of readers to the bizarre saga of the Wolff family. Although these two narratives have kinship and blood in common, they spring from dissimilar circumstances. The parents split up when the brothers were young. Geoffrey stayed east with his flamboyantly fraudulent father; Tobias drifted west with his mother...
...Some of the younger students from Cambodia have never gone to school," says Green. "Their schools were taken away, their teachers massacred; and they were sent to work." Green adds that while these experiences have not dampened the students' enthusiasm, they have often left them with little self-confidence in educational settings...