Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other subordinates, a daily object lesson in how to keep fit. By then Nimitz had moved his headquarters to a steel & concrete building, supposedly bombproof, overlooking the yard. Each morning he walked a mile or so before breakfast; each afternoon he played tennis (beating many a man much younger), or walked up & down Aiea Mountain, or hiked seven miles to a beach for a three-mile swim. The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff and Deputy CinCPac. On a private pistol range set up beside the building, Nimitz could outshoot most visiting marksmen...
...Japs combed the prison camps to find and kill him. They failed partly because they had no idea that Donald was 69 years old. They were looking for a much younger man. If they had remembered to turn to LIFE'S issue of Oct. 25, 1937, they would have found a striking likeness of him with Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...years ago Christopher Isherwood was one of the most promising of younger English novelists, and a member of the radical, pacifist literary set sometimes known as "the Auden circle." Now, thinking seriously of becoming a swami (religious teacher), he is studying in a Hindu temple in Hollywood, Calif...
...cowboy was extremely ceremonious and intensely democratic. In the presence of ladies, he referred to a bull as an animal. He referred contemptuously to fistfights as dogfights. Oldtimers in the cattle country were said to be alkalied when "they knowed all the lizards by their first names, except the younger set." A young fellow, or a small man, was said to be fryin' size. When the cowboy got drunk he liked to have everyone know it - he said he cut his wolf loose. Once four young cowpunchers rode their horses into a New Mexico saloon where an Eastern drummer...
...present younger generation (17 to 35), Author Ferber has high hopes -higher, she says, than she has had for anything in a long time. "They are so calm, so poised, so dignified," she says. "They're a little afraid, maybe-who isn't? -but not hysterical...