Word: youthful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite being clearly emotionally rooted in their pre-war European lives, neither Edja nor Masha demanded that their children speak to them in the languages of their youth. And though that decision made strategic sense to them as new immigrants to the U.S., they now suffer its consequences. And so do their descendents. With their hearing worsening and general health starting to break down, my grandmother and her friends would have a vastly easier time communicating with the next generations of their families if only we could speak in their native tongues...
...part of me that wants assurance that I will not meet a similar fate rationalizes that the times are different. My friends and I are spending our twenties with each other as family. Though some of us have boyfriends and girlfriends, we spend a significant amount of our youth away from home learning to depend on each other. Maybe today’s generations of young people educated away from home and growing up in relative affluence will prime us for maintaining, or at least returning to, these bonds that we are forming now. Among others, one thing that...
...attends my old elementary school in Texas. Much to her rambling pleasure, I asked her pointed questions about her kindergarten class, expecting to hear tales of religious indoctrination. (After all, it’s Texas—a place that recently revised school textbooks in order to brainwash its youth on the evils of homosexuality.) If Texas elementary schools were cracking down on “Christmas” with the same aggression as the article suggested, I’d have cause for concern...
...Chinese government has rekindled anti-Japanese sentiment among its youth in order to relegate to the background the harm and damage done by the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square massacre. This a case of selective forgetting. Elaine Grace Santiano Hermosa, the Philippines...
...legendary training regimen, strict diet and unequaled discipline at bat. Steroids may pump you up, but they won't help you bat .362 or hit homers more often than you strike out. Commentators who try to credit steroids for Bonds' success are doing a disservice to America's youth by implying that drugs--not talent, hard work and discipline--are what make athletes great...