Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates that he did not mind because Senator Thomas Francis Eagleton of Missouri was so clearly a superior alternative to Spiro Agnew. Only moments before, Eagleton had stood on the podium with his running mate, arms raised in triumph, a partly dazed but wholly rapturous grin spread across his boyish, Jack Lemmony face...
...Kennedy flew by private jet to Miami Beach. Arriving on the podium after Eagleton's speech, Kennedy drew the convention's first display of unmitigated warmth, a roaring standing ovation. Then, in a powerful speech written by Richard Goodwin, Kennedy delivered an evangelistic plea for unity. He sounded less boyish than he used to, speaking in driving cadences reminiscent of his brothers and somewhat of F.D.R. His rhetoric seemed rotund in comparison to McGovern's prairie tones. "For there is a new wind rising over the land," he said. "In it can be heard many things, promises, anguish, hopes...
...became the youngest candidate ever to be elected St. Louis circuit attorney; he looked so boyish that he stumped the What's My Line? panel. At 31 he was the state's youngest attorney general, and at 35 the youngest Lieutenant Governor. Describing himself as a "moderate liberal, whatever that is," he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1968 and unseated the Democratic incumbent, Ed Long, in a primary fight following a LIFE expose of Long's unsavory dealings with the Teamsters Union. He met George McGovern soon after arriving in Washington...
...committed to holding new federal elections in November. Schiller's departure is likely to hurt Brandt's chances of again defeating the powerful Christian Democrats and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union, since he is losing what Germans call an "election locomotive." The slim and still boyish professor, who rescued the West German economy from its 1967 recession, pulled in the votes in the last federal election, which gave the Social Democrats their upset victory in 1969. Once in office, Schiller helped calm the fears of West German businessmen about Brandt's Socialist regime...
...soon as Jody Smith assumed the mayoralty of Ayrshire, Iowa (pop. 300), three months ago, things began to, well, hop. The first thing he did was take $800 from the budget to spruce up the rundown town hall-including patching a wall at which, in a burst of boyish spirit, several of his Boy Scout troop had once thrown a fellow member. Toughly impartial, he recently fined his 17-year-old brother, Len, $24 for illegal possession of beer. He has spearheaded several long-needed reforms, such as jacking up the town speed limit from 10 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h...