Word: boyish
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...took me a moment; the gray hair and the business suit were unfamiliar, but the boyish voice was unmistakable. I blurted out, "You're Jackie Robinson! I used to love...
...baseball questions, our conversation turned to what was on his mind. This was in 1967; his son was home from Viet Nam and having trouble with drugs. It was a situation he didn't understand, a mystery. I remember that his voice wasn't as boyish or incisive as he reasoned with his anxiety...
...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...