Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contra support within Nicaragua. I have gone to a number of towns in Nicaragua where I have found that the youth are simply not there. I ask their parents where they've gone, and they say they've gone off to join the contras. We stopped at a breadline in Managua. There were about 250 people. We asked them how long they had been there. About three hours. Had they had breadlines like this before the Sandinistas? No, just in the past two years. We asked who was responsible, and finally one woman said, "Come on, tell the truth...
Gaddafi's cause and the means with which he pursues it are the result of his desert youth, his early military training and his scattered reading of utopian and anarchist writers. His father was an illiterate Bedouin shepherd, and Gaddafi was born in a goatskin tent in the desert near Surt. "The desert teaches you to rely on yourself," Gaddafi has written. "The values I learned there have remained with me all my life...
Life is slowly returning to the town of Tenancingo. The grade school has reopened its doors, as have the youth club and the carpentry workshop. Once again women call to one another from window ledges as they sit weaving palm straw into strips for hats and bags. Two weeks ago, bus service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their...
...thing that bothers me the most is thatthere is no more anger," said Domenic Bozzotto,president of Local 26 of the Hotel and RestaurantWorkers. Bozzotto said that sustained anger, whichhad existed during his youth 20 years ago, has nowbeen replaced with "timely" anger that lasts nolonger than an hour...
...actual high school life, forming a soft pastel backdrop for the sharp eccentricities of co-star Haim. In one sense the movie is about the resolution of these oppositions in character, of the maturing awareness of Cap and Maggie, and Lucas' discovery of acceptance and the joys of youth...