Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the people who rise to the top in Cambridge politics have lived here all their lives. They succeed because they have known from childhood how the city works and how their neighborhood thinks...
Barbara Ackermann is an exception. Not only did she not grow up in Cambridge, she spent most of her childhood living in Europe...
...From my childhood, I have believed Jews and Arabs can live together, and I believe now they should live together. I was taught by my parents from a very early age one very important thing. If that would be understood, all of us could live in peace. It is that all the rights to this country, to the land of Israel -- especially Judea and Samaria -- are Jewish. I am talking about rights over the land. But everyone who lives in the country should have all the rights of the country...
...years, as if every Westerner were a cia agent. But she was also concerned about how an American would view the region where she and my father had come from. My grandparents were buried in the town of Uvarovo, 60 miles southeast of Tambov. I had spent my early childhood years there, and returned to Uvarovo every summer as a schoolboy...
...drove to Uvarovo, the village of my youth that had since turned into a decent-sized city of some 50,000. I discovered that the second secretary of the city party committee was Vladimir Selyugin, an old childhood friend. When I last saw Volodya, he had been working as an agrotechnical engineer. Why had he suddenly turned up on the committee? He told me that he was tired of Uvarovo being run by transients. He had grown up here, worked here and had no intention of going anywhere else...