Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret Service protection? Nonsense, snorted Vice President Alben Berkley, 71. "I'm a big boy now," he declared. "And besides, who would want to harm a young man like...
...himself, he took over the 103-year-old school, then partially town-supported, with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday night, bringing free bottles of Green-ough's Horseradish with...
Right Down Main Street. The folks around Parnell remember young Ben as a rough one. Quick as a cat and strong.as a bull, he could lick any young buck in the county, and frequently did, and he would bet on anything...
Parnell really buzzed the day that young Ben, who had ridden cow ponies on his father's farm since he was four, thundered down Main Street in an impromptu match race for $5 a side. There also came the day when a riot was threatened after he single-handedly attacked a group of Italians and felled one of them with a stone; his father hustled Ben off to a logging camp until things cooled...
...absence of snakes in Ireland," writes a young professor in the current Scientific American, "is the direct outcome of the Pleistocene geography of the British Isles...