Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind him are all those groups which believe in totalitarianism and Nazi invincibility, especially the younger men in the Army and in the bureaucracy. Older, more conservative groups in both the Government and the Army are suspicious of the aims of both Germany and Russia, and behind them are most of the people. They do not want to involve Japan in a dangerous war with any power outside Asia, regardless of legalistics...
Belle was started on the primrose path by a seducer. One day, when she was 18, Bandit Cole Younger and five other horsemen rode up to her father's farmhouse in eastern Texas. A big man with steel-blue eyes and fine, curly hair, Cole Younger, with his brothers and the James clan, had staged the country's first bank robbery -in Liberty, Tex., in 1866. He read theology on the side...
Prepared by the Council's new Committee on Tenure and Curriculum, the report was backed up by detailed investigations of the budget reductions in the 21 largest Departments. Failure to rehire younger men in many fields, it was pointed out, will result in "increasing tutor's loads, leaning toward group rather than individual tutorial, stiffening the requirements for Plan A, and further restricting the tutorial of Plan B students...
Reductions in some Departments were achieved by weeding out "luxury" expenses, or by special circumstances such as an ordinary leave of absence for a full professor. But the general picture, the report asserted, was that younger members--section men, assistants, and teaching fellows--were being dropped in large numbers...
...little King Vittorio Emanuele should designate. The King had a couple of cousins who were in need of work. One was the Duke of Aosta, who had just finished losing the Crown of Ethiopia for his Cousin Vittorio (see p. 37). The other was Aosta's lean, towering younger brother, Aimone, Duke of Spoleto, who has done most of his campaigning in boudoirs and is now married to Irene, Princess of Greece. Spoleto got the clover & apple...