Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world is full of dangerous ideas, and we are both naive and stupid if we believe that the way to prepare intelligent young men to face the world is to try to protect them from such ideas while they are in college. Four years spent in an insulated nursery will produce gullible innocents, not tough-minded realists who know what they believe because they have faced the enemies of their beliefs . . . We have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students. We have confidence in the strength . . . of American democracy. There is no danger from an open communist which...
Across the line in Arkansas, aggressive, young (36) Governor Sidney S. McMath was having as much trouble putting over civil rights as his good friend Harry Truman, who already had tapped McMath as the kind of progressive leader the South needs. The legislature adjourned after blocking McMath's anti-lynch, anti-poll tax program. To rebel cries that McMath was trying to produce a "mongrel" race, the governor replied wearily: "I thought we had gotten above that sort of thing...
Emory Holt, an engineer officer in the merchant marine, had met and married pretty, dark-haired Norma Bew six years before. Emory liked chess and classical music; Norma liked men and gaiety. In the Manhattan camera company where she worked, she had met young and handsome David Whittaker. When Emory got back from one of his voyages, he found Norma changed. With a seagoing officer's methodical care, he noted her behavior in his "log"-when she came home nights (0230); her condition (drunk, smeared lipstick). He hired a private detective, whose reports confirmed his fears. He noted that...
...Young "Nyrin" became the society's most vocal member. In a drab little shop, whose dusty windows bore the society's name in proud gilt letters, the committee met each week. Around the bare table sat 30 miners, some straight from the pit, the coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
...soured early and permanently on the idea of opportunity in a capitalist society. A former boss of his remembers Bevan as a young miner in the Welsh seams. "He was a bad little brat," that man recalls. "He'd lie down right there beside the tubs rather than do one stroke over what was absolutely necessary to earn his minimum wage. Aroused other lads to do the same. 'Why should we sweat our guts out to fill capitalist bellies?' he'd say. You could do nothing with...