Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young lieutenant had other ideas. "The oath I took when I graduated as an officer," he declared, "binds me to the duty of defending my flag and nation according to the principles of the constitution." Then he sent a telegram: "Dear Father, with pain I have declined the opportunity to join you, requesting instead return to the post of duty to which I am bound according to the principles of personal and military dignity you taught me. Your loving son, Froilan...
...church still owed $200 on its $2,700 worth of overhauling, but a $50 donation started off a collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young people were again taking an interest in church. Brother Gourley ran his eyes proudly over the chapel as the late afternoon sun flooded through its new windows. Said he: "We have great hopes...
...still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...
...could do it once, what if a lot of men did it together at the same time?" Two years later, in answer to a War Department call, he volunteered to learn to fly at the Wright Brothers' field in Dayton. Said his disapproving commanding officer: "Young man, I know of no better way for a person to commit suicide!" In that year, 1911, Hap Arnold became one of the first two qualified airplane pilots in the U.S. Army...
...week leave from his air base in England and goes off to Scotland with Patches, a mousy, grey-eyed little WAAF. After a week of shacking up in the Loch Lomond country, Jerry finds himself desperately in love with Patches, desperately out of love with his "healthily beautiful, loving, young, vigorous, clear-eyed, innocent, sexless and inexperienced" fiancee back on Long Island.To straighten out this situation and break his engagement in a face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers, fails in his mission when his socialite parents beg him to change his mind. But back in England...