Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Questions. With that he had bolted off toward a stairway and had vanished. Who was he? A disappointed lover? An enemy of the girl's family? It was soon obvious that he was neither. Eileen had no enemies. Neither did her family. The young marine was her childhood sweetheart and she had never had another beau. The cops guessed that the killer might never even have seen her before -he had called her simply a "female...
...Childhood: Grew up in Whittier, about 15 miles from Los Angeles, worked in father's gas station, delivered groceries. Favorite family anecdote: when Nixon was a boy, he read about the Teapot Dome scandal in the papers, told his mother: "When I get big, I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe...
...dancing was a favorite entertainment of the boys in the nearby public school, who came to the windows expressly to enjoy it. Ben was mortified, but not Mrs. Spock. "Don't pay any attention to them," she told him. "You know you are right." His unconventional and Spartan childhood apparently did Ben little harm, but he considers this no argument for inflicting the same kind of thing on others. "It's all right if you survive," he says. "Too many don't." He spent much of his boyhood cringing or running away from something, but his well...
Though Bob can dash 100 meters in 0:10.7 (Olympic record: 0:10.3), a childhood case of anemia still leaves him short of the endurance required to run the metric mile. It is just about his only athletic shortcoming. He is a one-man track team, capable of winning the majority of U.S. college track meets singlehanded. His best official discus throw, 173 ft. 4 in., is 2 in. better than the Olympic record...
Mark Clark is a product of the military environment since early childhood. Son of a career officer, he was born on an Army post-at Madison Barracks, N.Y. He was wounded in France; after World War I he began his slow climb up the rungs. He was a captain for 13 years. It was a period when career officers were almost wholly isolated from civilian affairs and political life. They lived with their families in little colonies at scattered garrisons or foreign posts, or were buried in the depths of the Washington bureaucracy. The public was disillusioned with World...