Word: youngsters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...erect, impudent youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him. No. 1 U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Sullivan fathered the skyscraper...
...chairman of both the party and government military commissions), but there is no doubt that he is the "para mount leader." Deng is a tiny man (approximately 5 ft. tall), half elf, half gunman; at 79 he is China's foremost pragmatist and is engagingly candid. A brilliant youngster who graduated from high school at 15, he went off to France after World War I as a student. There he met Chou En-lai (of whom Deng said recently, "I regarded him as my elder brother"), joined the Communist movement, returned to China, led peasant insurrections in Guangxi...
REMEMBER WHEN you were 10 or 11 years old, how you set up a lemonade stand, mowed lawns, or shoveled snow (depending on the climate), in order to make a few dollars to spend on candy and baseball cards and such? "What an enterprising youngster you are," one of your parents probably said to you at the time, adding, "Small-scale risk-capital endeavors will teach you the pleasures and pitfalls of cash-flow management...
What should an outsider do when a child reveals, however obliquely or mutedly, that his parents are abusive? First, say counselors, the trusted adult should believe the child; youngsters rarely invent such stories. The adult should tell the child that this is not a secret that must be kept, then try to determine if it is safe for the youngster to return home. The adult can confront the offender, warn someone else in the family, or seek outside professional help. Most large communities have child-protection agencies, community mental-health centers, a children's hospital and police departments with...
Bond's chief designer is Ben Lexcen, 47, who as a youngster in the small town of Boggabri in eastern Australia built such superior model racing sailboats that he had to give some away to keep his friends interested in competing. He gives nothing away now. Lexcen spent months in The Netherlands tank-testing eight different 25-ft. model hulls in secrecy to prevent the Americans from learning about his new keel. Indeed, reports surfaced last week that the Americans tried unsuccessfully to get the Dutch to reveal details of the design. Lexcen snaps: "They would flash...