Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overlords of the American League, winners of 29 pennants and 20 World Series. But last season the champion Yanks plummeted to sixth place, and rival teams started hooting that they ought to change their name to the Toledo Mud Hens. "Don't you believe it," growled General Man ager Ralph Houk. "We're not dead yet." He was right. The Yankees still had some dying...
...never the ideal teen-ager," Danny wryly recalls. But he has always been fiercely idealistic about marriage, and often brooded about his sister Grace's troubled marriage to Manuel Valtierra, a key punch operator who was once arrested for stabbing Grace more than a dozen times. Danny himself fell in love with a pretty Irish-German girl of 17, and proudly claims, "I never touched her till we were married." Today, Danny is a father, but his wife has divorced him and disappeared. He has yet to see his son, who was born while Danny was in Statesville Penitentiary...
...teen-agers get married? And what goes wrong? Pennsylvania State University Professor Carlfred Broderick sees it beginning when they decide to go steady (more than half do), terms this "the beginning of the end." Says Broderick: "It takes little or no effort to get more and more involved; before they know it, they are slipping and sliding into marriage." For boys, sex is the driving force (at least 35% of teenage brides are pregnant when they marry); the stronger the moral code, the more likely that the teen-ager will marry early...
...work in a cement plant when he found his wife-to-be was pregnant: "I don't think it's a good idea for young people to get married; there are too many things to do then. But it's so hard for a teen-ager to say, This is my judgment,' when in your own experience you don't know what you've done until it was done...
...kids ask me about the 1939 inscription," says one distributor, "I just tell them it was a big year for surfing." Those who do know don't mind. "We just don't have the feeling about this Nazi thing that our parents do," explains Los Angeles Teen-Ager Rick Higgins. In fact, what parental disapproval there is seems only to fuel the fad. Admits Palmdale's Paul O'Hara, 15: "It really upsets your parents. That's why everyone buys them...