Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indonesian case before the U.N. Security Council simmered down. A Dutch representative described the American attitude: "At first, the U.S. reacted like a New England parent surprised by a young man trifling with his daughter's honor. Now the State Department's attitude has changed. It became: 'What are we going to do about the baby...
...dapper young FBI man waved the customs inspectors aside. 'This is political. See that "good will" stuff painted on the body? Sounds like something out of Vishinsky...
...three years, merdeka (freedom) was the battle cry, the greeting and the promise of the young Indonesian republic. Strangers saluted each other with the word, children chanted it in the street. Many of the republic's hotels were renamed "Merdeka." But when the Dutch seized Jogjakarta, they took black paint and blotted out the word on the fagade of the hotel in the capital's heart. They have put no other name in its place...
When the U.N. Assembly opened its sessions in Paris last September, young Garry Davis, onetime Broadway gadabout, wartime bomber pilot and son of Society Bandleader Meyer Davis, was an eccentric freak who camped on the U.N.'s doorstep, heckled its deliberations. A self-declared citizen of the world who had surrendered his U.S. passport, he was a pathetic lone voice. By last week he was the leader of a surging popular movement. It had surprised him as much as anyone, and it was carrying him along on its crest. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre cabled...
...reception desk of the sleazy, Left Bank Hótel des Etats-Unis, a young German was explaining that he had come from Munich to see Herr Davis. A bearded Italian brandished a sheaf of papers. They were, he said, the applications...