Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most First Ladies, thrust into power by their husbands' skill in electioneering, were either unfitted, disinclined or too poor for the expensive game. Young, dark-eyed Mrs. Grover Cleveland was the last White House mistress to exert social dominance (she frowned on the bustle and the bustle disappeared). The White House experienced a brief, last burst of gaiety when "Princess Alice" Roosevelt (now the widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) made her debut there and was serenaded wherever she went with Alice Blue Gown...
...many ways, Martha was a fine helpmeet. When one of Ray's many wives-a Mrs. Myrtle Young-went to the Chicago cops and complained that Ray had taken her savings, steel-nerved Martha stood behind her and winked significantly at the desk sergeant. The sergeant advised Myrtle to see a psychiatrist; she died soon afterward of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...think we still have a chance-not more. To understand this, you must understand the mind of young Germans today. They are not apathetic; they are extremely inquisitive, but they are unconvinced. Democracy is nothing more than a theory and a word to them. Very interesting, they say-now, what has it done for-Germany? Where is it? When the Western powers cannot even agree among themselves, which one is being democratic? You argue this out-but it takes time...
...young war veteran, broken by his experience, confused in heart and mind, will interrupt your talk about how democracy must be defended at all costs. He will ask: 'That is very nice talk, but tell me about tomorrow. Am I to take a gun and fight for capitalist America?' If you have time, you can go on and explain what capitalist America...
Nagasaki is surprisingly full of smiles and surprisingly empty of hate. The A-bomb epicenter is a small park of less than an acre around a low, earthen mound topped by a plain wooden shaft. Seven young arborvitae trees circle the mound. A sign in English and Japanese states that 18,409 homes were destroyed, 29,739 people killed and 91,081 injured when a compact mass of plutonium "exploded in the air just above here...