Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This coach's dream is Charley Parker of Jefferson High School, San Antonio. He graduates this spring, and hopes to get in some college training under the Army's A-12 program. His high-school coaches call him "the ideal athlete." He never breaks training, is president of the Student Council, and gets nothing less than As in his studies...
...Wisecarver. Elaine Monfredi, unmarried 21-year-old mother of two, eloped last week from Los Angeles with "Sonny" Wisecarver, 14. To some, theirs was a tawdry tabloid tale, distasteful and easily dismissed. But others could not keep from wondering about the kind of American life which had produced the ideals of marital felicity they voiced. Said she: "Sonny is an ideal husband, the kind every girl wants to have. He is kind and considerate and doesn't believe in hitting women." Said he: "I think Elaine's the kind of wife I want because she likes to have...
Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, frosty, amoral beau ideal of Prussian militarism, is the head man. Rundstedt, no longer slim but still straight-backed at 68, is Supreme Commander of anti-invasion forces in France and the Low Countries...
...home could rest assured that blood plasma, which is blood with the red corpuscles removed, is often a lifesaver. But a really bad hemorrhage produces a dangerous reduction in red corpuscles, which carry oxygen to the tis sues. Though a man can get along on less than half the ideal number of red corpuscles, he may die from lack of oxygen in his tissues if the shortage gets acute...
...meeting will present both an opportunity and a crisis. It is an opportunity for him to convert the other Dominions to his vision of the future: an all-embracing system of world security resting on the support of all states, large and small. In pledging Canada to such an ideal, and placing that ideal ahead of Canada's obligations to the Commonwealth, Mr. King set his Dominion out as the champion of small states and against a world dominated by a few great powers...