Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kids. Though one of these youngsters will probably play the lead at Forest Hills, a couple of even younger tennists may well steal the spotlight this summer. They are: 18-year-old Edward ("Budge") Patty,* and 16-year-old Bob Falkenburg. In this pair, the Southern California Tennis Association thinks it has another Budge & Mako...
Undismayed, Architect Kahn filled his partners' places with his younger brothers Louis, Moritz and Felix, kept an eye out for a still younger brother Julius, who was just finishing college. His faith in the Kahn family was not misplaced. Louis is still Albert's chief executive and right-hand man. Felix worked with the famous "six companies" group that built Boulder Dam. Moritz, now dead, supervised most of the work on Russia's Five-Year Plan. The young Julius, later an executive with Republic Steel, invented a new and more precisely calculable method of reinforcing concrete which...
London of the Bank Holiday, Whitmonday, while a gusty wind blew the cold rain down Downing Street. The next day the formal signing, with Churchill's gold-bound pen, took place in Eden's red-leather-chaired room under a bust of the younger Pitt...
...makes the mistakes of age-the inability to learn lessons, unwillingness to discard elderly inefficients, and, above all, dislike of contact with younger men whose minds are still elastic and in their prime. We are told . . . [Churchill] is indispensable; I deny that. We are told he is a great international figure and therefore must not be criticized, far less removed; I am unable to agree. International figures are made, not born. If you will make me Minister of Information with no more than the present powers over the press and radio, I will guarantee to make a sack of potatoes...
...Said Walter Lippmann: "Because it is necessary to improvise, it is necessary to place in command of the whole operation younger officers who are not set in their ways . . . who will seek out men who know what has been done in British waters, who by the spirit they possess will energize and inspire the whole campaign." To feed U.S. fears were harrowing ac counts of survivors landed from torpedoed ships at ports from New London to Key West, a May toll of 15 ships sunk in the Gulf alone, the spread of U-boat depredations to the coast of good...