Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They couldn't take it. They couldn't take the discipline; they didn't like the system. They didn't like to take orders from younger professional officers. . . . They were unhappy that they didn't get a nice, new warship berth, but instead drew the amphibious force, or perhaps even a drab and dangerous LST. But worst of all, none of this group of "experts" was worked hard enough...
...weeks, younger Tory M.P.s had sat angrily silent while Clement Attlee's Labor Government poured in a barrage of bills and plans for the socialization of Britain. They had waited & waited for their own Party leaders, for Winston Churchill himself to go on the offensive. Off their back benches the young Tories had not been silent. Some were bitterly outspoken. In the Tory Daily Mail young, Tory-reformist Quintin Hogg wrote of the Conservative "Rip van Winkles." One day last week Conservative prestige hit a new low and simmering young Tory dissatisfaction reached the boiling point. In Commons Deputy...
Next day Winston Churchill came back to a whirling storm of young Tory complaints. At a meeting of the backbenchers, Churchill slumped in a red leather armchair, listened sourly for 90 minutes to their pent-up criticisms. In schoolmasterly fashion Churchill reminded the younger men that they would better appreciate Parliament tactics when they had a few more years behind them...
...Quarterbacks. The Navy had coasted, apparently confident that Congress would fall for no hifalutin notions about air power and that in the end the whole unpleasantness would blow over. Tardily the Navy tried to stiffen its defense, called in two of its younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific...
...Metcalf, Director of the University Library, stated that "the present Widener Library building has not been and never can be a satisfactory headquarters for undergraduate library service. Ideally planned with graduate students and faculty in mind, it has a tremendously large catalogue which is unsatisfactory to the majority of younger students.... They need a much smaller library, of perhaps 100,000 volumes to which they can be admitted without restriction...