Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game he called "scatter the pigeons." One night he hid in the shadows, then sprang in front of a white couple: "The two of them stood frozen as I bore down on them. I felt a surge of power: these people were mine . . . If I had been younger, with less to lose, I'd have robbed them." Instead Staples shouted good evening and strolled away with a laugh. There are few better examples in literature of the contained fury toward whites that grips even the most outwardly docile black...
...younger Ames' interest in spycatching may have been stoked by his father, a pipe-smoking member of the CIA counterintelligence staff created and run by the monomaniacal mole hunter James Jesus Angleton. But Carleton had an undistinguished career tracking communist parties and front groups. After he retired from the agency in the 1960s, few remembered much about him beyond his penchant for taking long naps at his desk. Still, the father, now dead, left one important legacy to the CIA: his son, who in 1962 signed on as a trainee...
...Odessa Baiul skates at a rink where the ice is often like spring mush. She shares a little room with her coach's younger daughter, her best friend. Her idol is Rudolf Nureyev, whose pictures adorn the walls. Zmievskaya says her prize pupil "doesn't know what a million dollars is. All she knows is that she needs 10 fantiki ((candy wrappers)) to buy an ice cream...
Public service comes naturally to Ickes; his father went to Washington as F.D.R.'s Interior Secretary in 1933 and stayed in that job until 1946. The younger Ickes, born when his father was 65, attended Stanford and Columbia Law, broke horses for four years in California, then began a 25-year career as a lawyer and liberal activist. He worked for a string of losing presidential candidates -- Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and Jesse Jackson -- often tying the party establishment in knots with his knowledge of arcane rules and procedures. But he signed on early with Clinton and later became...
...show the vulnerability of modern women, but instead depicts her female characters as essentially helpless, clinging to their husbands with whatever skills they can for fear of being left with nothing. Even Leila, supposedly the independent-minded professional, spent decades making excuses for her husband's frequent affairs with younger women. She only divorces him when he goes as far as moving in with his pregnant girlfriend...