| Pete Brown, the village fire chief, organized the all-girl brigade as men and teen-age boys drifted away. |
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| He was used to female eyes, a long-ago married man with a wife and teen-age daughter. |
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| Broken homes, teen-age promiscuity and drug and alcohol abuse are common in nice middle-class neighbourhoods too. |
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| But more than that, we wanted them to be happy individuals enjoying their teen-age years, respected as individuals with their own intelligences. |
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| This probably led to a period of depression in my teen-age years, when the Korean War broke out. |
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| I've even got my twin teen-age, athletic sons talking ginseng, so they stay healthy and have the endurance they need for their activities. |
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| The teen-age girl involved was the daughter of prominent SYDA followers, who afterward left the organization in disgust. |
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| His family life was even more disconnected, another family man with a rebellious teen-age daughter and alcoholic wife. |
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| There the teen-age detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind. |
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| Germany would be, for example a regular destination for thousands of young girls54, sometimes teen-age girls, coming from Eastern Europe as well as from Thailand. |
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| In a story of such unbridled teen-age success, with a smile like that, who could possibly be indecorous enough to become the bad guy? |
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| Pop music deifies the teen-age experience — especially physical beauty that needs no maintenance and can withstand the high life. |
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| In her plain but adultlike clothes she looked like a teen-age nanny, someone from another country who was underpaid and exploited. |
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| They constitute an excessive and pejorative insult aimed at a public figure, whose harmless comments about teen-age boys in no way justified such a nasty and unprofessional outburst on the part of a medical doctor. |
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| She said that dropout rates are high in Timor-Leste because of early marriage, teen-age pregnancy and the fear of abuse in the classroom or school grounds, or on the way to and from school. |
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| In recollection, the shiny, self-pitying grandeur of Pink Floyd is among the uneasiest tokens of my teen-age tastes. |
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| In explaining the psycho-social determinants of teen-age smoking, Dr. Tamerin found that peer smoking practices were by far the best predictor of adolescent smoking. |
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| These gaps result in high infant and maternal mortality rates among rural, mainly indigenous populations, and other problems related to child and maternal malnutrition and teen-age pregnancy, among other things. |
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| I don't understand why Bel Powley, who plays the aristocratic nineteenth-century adolescent Thomasina Coverly, thinks that peevishly shrieking her lines is the best way to convey the passion and urgency of a teen-age girl. |
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| Sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who allegedly kidnapped a teen-age girl at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her in a vacant house. |
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| As teen-age girls left babysitting for service-sector jobs in malls, helpful pre-adolescent sitters became idealized in a girls' popular culture that sought to acculturate a workforce of youthful sitters. |
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| She becomes stepmother to the teen-age Pansy, who is later courted by a young American named Rosier and, for good measure, by Warburton, who will lose no opportunity to draw near to Isabel once more. |
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| This fairy tale of middle-class loneliness begins with a charmed circle of teen-age friends, which dissolves when one of them, a waiflike pianist, accuses another, the engineering student Tsukuru, of an unforgivable crime. |
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| Swift's story is often framed as an underdog saga, the triumph of a nice girl over mean ones, and of teen-age pluckiness over industry gatekeepers. |
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| They had known one another for yonks — since they were teen-age hooligans. |
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| There can be no gainsaying the fact that the example of adults in hygiene and safety can be the deciding factor between life and death of their teen-age children. |
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| A canny teen-age combination of naif and faux naif arrives in the metropolis, declares himself a visionary, bad-mouths everyone, and produces perverse images that attract a fanatical following among the stylish. |
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| A small door opened in the gate, and a teen-age boy beckoned us in. |
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| It's hard to care very much about the teen-age characters in Hollywood movies — so many of them are beer-bonged slobs or wizards flying around on broomsticks or vampires with interesting teeth and serried abs but little soul. |
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| A thousand teen-age hearts leap in unison. |
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| He had no patience for mewling teen-age girls. |
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| On the rickety bus that carries people from Florence to the ancient Roman amphitheatre on the hill at Fiesole, a teen-age girl gave up her seat to an elderly woman who had the maple leaf brooch on her jacket. |
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| The author's third novel is a spooky coming-of-age tale set in West Salem, Massachusetts, a town whose witch-hanging history both captivates and circumscribes the lives of the teen-age girls who reside there. |
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| The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson — a Schubert sonatina in A minor. |
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| Spent nearly every teen-age day on the Lower East Side, thought it would always be home, but then N. Y. U. and Columbia both said nyet, and she ended up even farther from the city than before. |
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| But the live band is dynamic, and the cast is extremely good, particularly Adeola Role, as a woman unseduced by Matthews's do-gooder impulses, and Kristolyn Lloyd and Nicolette Robinson, as a couple of teen-age orphans. |
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| Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet... a man could navigate by eye and the nearest railroad track and fly by the seat of his pants. |
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| Authorities said one home was hit six times after the suspects recruited a teen-age neighbor, entrusted by the residents to house-sit, while they were away on vacation. |
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| Teen-age salesmen from Wear Ever pots and pans, also upstairs, took me to the Cherry House for ice cream sodas on our first dates. |
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