Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after World War II, Whitney itself began to show alarming signs of going modern. Young soldiers came home, got into politics and began to run the town. They put through bond issues for new water and sewer systems, for paving and lighting the streets. Construction of the vast Whitney Dam began on the nearby Brazos River and new people thronged in. A hundred new houses were built...
...time or another, many a commercial pilot has felt the sweat of anxiety starting on his brow as he saw, off in the distance, a young fighter pilot climbing into the wild blue yonder with 2,000 h.p. in front of him and a good breakfast under his belt. Sometimes those fighter pilots experienced an exuberant urge for self-expression which could only be satisfied by a thunderous dive on a herd of cows, a pretty girl's house, or on a slow and whalelike commercial airliner...
Whitney's housewives sniffed the spirit of change, suddenly rebelled. After years of submissively sidestepping the bench and its occupants (some of whom had a roving eye and a ribald tongue), a delegation of housewives called on young Mayor Fred Basham and told him to do something about it. The mayor agreed. One morning Whitney's oldtimers discovered, with cackling chagrin, that their sanctuary had been ignominiously lugged into a nearby alley. They angrily drew up a petition asking that it be put back. Cried one: "They done it in the night like a thief-if that bench...
...Democrats: Chapman, Ky.; Frear, Del.; Fulbright, Ark.; George, Ga.; Gillette, Iowa; Graham, N.C.; Hill, Ala.; Kilgore, W. Va.; Maybank, S.C.; Miller, Idaho; Sparkman, Ala.; Aithers, Ky. Republicans: Baldwin, Conn.; Cain, Wash.; Ecton, Mont.; Hendrickson, N.J.; McCarthy, Wis.; Thye, Minn.; Young...
People in Private Cars. The deserted road was a grim reminder of the threat which the Huks represent for the young republic. Along it dozens of villages were deserted. Fruit rotted on mango and papaya trees. Fields were reverting to jungle. The Huks sack villages, carry off all their food and many of their young men to the Huk mountain hideouts. The U.S.-educated provincial governor, Juan Chioco, told me that nearly 150,000 people of the 500,000 in Nueva Ecija province have been forced to flee their homes...