Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, the civil rights movementitself was breaking up into younger, angrier BlackPower proponents and the more moderate NAACPlawyers and civil rights workers...
...this change going to come about? Well, don't count on physicians. "We've got an entrenched older establishment that doesn't see the need for change," Smith observes. "Younger physicians are more likely to favor it but less likely to be politically active." Women are going to have to prod doctors into giving them better care. Smith suggests that women approach their gynecologists "the way you do car dealers and insurance salesmen." Ask questions, he says, and take notes. Your doctor may mark down such assertive action in his medical records. But as a measure of respect, it beats...
...wife, who had been jittery since receiving a series of obscene phone calls the year before, would have opened the door to only three men in town. Police questioned all three and quickly decided on their man: Roger Keith Coleman, then 22, a coal miner married to Wanda's younger sister. Coleman had the misfortune of having a record and lacking a convincing alibi. He had served time from 1977 to 1979 for attempted rape, which helped persuade police that they had found Wanda's killer. A month later, they arrested him. A year later, there was a four...
...pressure. Of being the number one team in the country for virtually the entire season. Of trying to win a second national championship (and only the school's third NCAA crown). Of playing an opponent that is younger and (dare anyone think it) hungrier...
...anyone who frequents Harvard Square, Ginny embodies your image of the place. But even for people who haven't,. Ginny stricks that universal chord in everyone: she is young, stubborn and impressionable but independent. She reminds us of our own youth, or what our younger sisters are like. In short, she is instantly identifiable. Leimbach uses Ginny tactfully to tie together the innumerable loose strands that hang from the cloth that comprises this narrative: Ginny draws together all these loose ends and is the catalyst for the consolidation of this story. Leimbach flavors her narrative with an assortment of literary...