Word: eldest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Polynesian families, there is tremendous pressure on the eldest son especially to become a bread winner," says David Lakisa, the NSWRL's Pacific coaching and development officer. "They're using league as their meal ticket." Twelve years after his family left New Zealand for Sydney's west, both Willie Isa's parents work in factories to support their four children. "I want to ease their workload," says Isa, who aims to secure an NRL contract within two years. Says team-mate Penese: "Family comes first for me. Dad's been a taxi driver since we got here [16 years...
Hermann tells Ruby's story in a cluster of episodes that set her family's misfortunes in the context of classic adolescent moments--a summer at camp, the junior prom. There is the Ruby who silently endures her eldest brother's collapse into schizophrenia, and there is the Ruby who wonders if the boy she talks to every night, cradling the phone in her bed, might ever look at her as more than a friend. It's a tricky balancing act, but for a first-time novelist, Hermann is remarkably sure-footed. When at age 14 Ruby accompanies her father...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study to join the family for dinner. He looked a bit gruff, but his eyes were kind. He asked me what my major was, and I told him it was literature. "What kind?" he asked. "English," I said. He said, "There are other kinds of literature, you know...
...When my dad first raised the burial idea in the 1980s, I chuckled about it," Baur's eldest son Larry, 49, told TIME. Larry Baur quickly realized his father was serious. Family jokes circulated about the Pringles plan, but no one questioned the elder Baur's decision. So when Frederic Baur died after a battle with Alzheimer's, Larry and his siblings stopped at Walgreen's for a burial can of Pringles on their way to the funeral home. "My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use," Baur says, "but I said, 'Look, we need...
...Wherever Ismailis have spread, the externals of culture have not been important,” said Asani, who was the academic advisor to Princess Zahra Aga Khan ’94, the Aga Khan’s eldest daughter...