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The majority of older Arab youths have expressed a desire to emigrate to other countries, particularly those in Europe.
In his final paragraph, Mr Major says that cat's hair down on the face of youths before the beard grows is a term that all male readers will be familiar with.
The circumstantial evidence provided by the historical dictionary's quotations documents the shift, and there is no case for resorting to the fable that the word derives from the description of such youths larking about.
To provide an answer to my own question--"Why now" does the "great disruption" seem to be receding?--I would suggest that society in broad terms came to an understanding in the late 1980s that we had largely lost control of a relatively large number of youths and public spaces.
It was originally used by the pachucos (1940s youths) in the jargon they developed in the 1930s.
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