Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with almost all things Kennedy, the anniversaries of man?s greatest leap have a dark side. Saturday, the day after the younger JFK went down, was the 30th anniversary of his uncle Teddy?s Chappaquiddick disaster. The scandal broke one day after Apollo 11 took off and two days before it landed; the curse shared the headlines with the triumph, as it does today. One more aquatic disaster made the news today, dredged up for reexamination ?- Gus Grissom?s capsule has been pulled from the ocean. The capsule Liberty Bell 7, which had lain in water three miles deep since...
...Number by which single men 45 and younger outnumber single women their age in Santa Clara County, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley...
...course, the traditional virtues come wrapped in the garb of the less than traditional 1990s, when prosperity is at an all-time high and leisure at an all-time low. In the Glennon household in Lake Forest, Ill., parents John and Kathy and their three younger daughters have re-arranged family life around the hockey schedule of son Nick, 10. One week's lineup: Sunday: practice from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday: power skating from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday: game night. Friday: a fund-raising dinner dance for the team. Sunday: another game. And several days...
...School in Studio City, Calif. Gregg Heinzmann, associate director of the Youth Sports Research Council at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., observes that these players often have become "specialists who face all the stress of a pro." Why the pressure? According to Thran, college coaches are telling ever younger kids to limit themselves to one sport year round, so they can make the elite traveling clubs...
...think of MARIO PUZO this way: When I was younger, struggling for a sense of place in the world of letters, this older, wiser author of indisputable talent and success not only offered me steady encouragement but took the time to read my adolescent jottings. But that was Mario: that smile, those mischievous eyes, that wry humor--one part paisano and one part prince. He treated everyone, from studio chiefs to busboys, exactly the same--well, maybe busboys a little better...