Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record numbers to pass judgment on Hot Rod's reform campaign, then ambled back to their beer and games of schmere and sheepshead. The count: 118 for John Froelich, 48 for Hot Rod. Said 51-year-old John as he began another term: "I guess I showed that young whippersnapper." Hot Rod's grandfather added: "I didn't vote for Hot Rod [but] he'll be all right after a while. He's like...
...candidate, however, both by age (20 weeks) and position (eventual heir to the British throne) was not likely to run for public office. Nevertheless, Prince Charles of Edinburgh was daily in the public mind. Last week, his parents, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, packed young Charles off by motorcar to spend Easter at their new home at Windlesham Moor, 30 miles from London, in Surrey. The trip did not disturb the clocklike daily routine which Charlie's mother had decreed. Each morning at 6, he awoke for a breakfast of milk and patent cereal. Three other meals and long...
...Young Panama's vocabulary contains only a part of the Americanisms that have invaded the everyday Spanish of the Isthmus, mainly by infiltration from the English-speaking Canal Zone. Other beachheads, on subjects ranging from elegant eating (at a dinerdans) to economic blockade (boicot), include chingongo (chewing gum), guachiman (watchman), daim (dime), bichicomer, the verbs blofear (to bluff) and quidnapear, the meaningful noun...
...moment bright young (30) Leonard Bernstein finished reading Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety, "a baroque eclogue" in a Third Avenue bar (TIME, July 21, 1947), he felt a "compulsion" to compose a symphony based on it. For two years, on his busy rounds of baton waving and piano playing, he scribbled away from Taos to Tel Aviv, "in planes, in hotel lobbies." Last week Lennie's Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra was ready...
...cowboys & Indians, the playmates tied Mike up in a nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...