Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grown-up men start going for the balls as well, scaring off the poor youngsters. I kid you not--in the bottom of the sixth, with the score 2-1, a Northeastern player fouled a pitch back into the stands to the right of home plate. One ambitious youngster proceeded to run after the sphere...
...said last night in a telephone interview that he intends to bring to Harvard "the best faculty not just in the U.S., but in the world," and to ensure that "every youngster who is accepted is able to come...
...flaws more serious. Gus Lee's China Boy was as precocious as they come. Based on the author's own childhood, it told of a first-generation Chinese-American misfit named Kai Ting who struggles to grow up in a predominantly black San Francisco neighborhood. The youngster stands up to the ghetto's bullies and his Caucasian stepmother, who imposes a harsh Americanization regimen that bans Chinese language and customs. Out of these fresh and dramatic materials Lee fashioned a winning novel, and after this successful debut, he quit his day job as an attorney to write full time...
There's a particularly revealing moment in the otherwise pedestrian movie Shadowlands, where a young fan, on meeting the author C.S. Lewis, whispers in hushed awe, "Are you him?" The youngster found his idol to be suitably impressive...
...time for black-Jewish relations in general, especially in New York City, which never sleeps because it's too busy fretting about race. The Justice Department recently announced plans to look - into Brooklyn's 1991 Crown Heights riots, sparked when a Jewish motorist struck and killed a black youngster. In January, New York police mistakenly raided a Nation of Islam mosque after a false robbery report...