Word: five-year-old
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...Springfest was enjoyable, sure, but the students wanted high-profile bands and a party atmosphere. Fearing reaction from the five-year-old set, the University was holding back on both counts...
...close of their three-day meeting, those gathered in Casablanca agreed only to send emissaries to mediate between several feuding Arab states, including Syria and Iraq, and to condemn Iran for its role in the five-year-old Persian Gulf war. In their final communiqué, the summiteers blandly "noted with appreciation" explanations given by Jordan's King Hussein and by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, of a Middle East peace initiative that the two men put together in February. Even so, to the optimistic Jordanians, that relatively opaque reference amounted to a tacit go-ahead for their...
...sexual exclusivity, jealousy is a lamentable hangover from the days when mates were viewed as personal property and extensions of the self. A high-water mark of this view was Alex Comfort's More Joy of Sex, which compared sexual jealousy to carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle." He solemnly advised readers to be proud of having a mate that others wish to sleep with. To the late psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, this view of jealousy was an attempt by pained sexual revolutionaries to conjure up invulnerability by declaring the pain invalid...
...have the right medicines, there is no clothing, and the ground is humid. Infection is going to spread." The only food on hand for injured survivors was yogurt and sweet biscuits known locally as frena. Julian Ramírez, a mechanical engineer who had lost his five-year-old daughter in the calamity, feared that hundreds of additional survivors would die for lack of care. "They give us yogurt and frena. What good is that?" he asked...
...principle of blind justice better than Attorney General Edwin Meese. Still, he may have been slightly taken aback when he learned that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Meese's trouble started two weeks ago, when a municipal court clerk in Los Angeles accidentally discovered the five-year-old warrant while scanning computer records. The top cop, it seems, had committed the crime of jaywalking in 1980, right in front of Ronald Reagan's California campaign headquarters. His fine: $10. When Meese, then Reagan's chief of staff, did not pay the penalty, it automatically increased...