Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago a road was built on a dike that connected Urk to the mainland, and the 20th century began catching up with Urkers, especially the younger ones. Traditions began to change, especially the pleasant one of "public cuddling," in which young lovers hugged and squeezed each other on Friday and Saturday nights in Urk's 40O-yard-long main street, while around them a circle of shouting and laughing boys and girls teased the lovers ("Afterward," said one traditionalist, "the brides were properly led to the altar...
...Burglund told Bunche, the admission of Ralph Jr. would mean the resignation of at least 200 of the club's members. "Neither I nor my son regards it as a hardship or a humiliation," said Dr. Bunche. "It is a discredit to the club itself. If I were younger, I think I'd put in an application-just for the hell...
...people who shake his hand, and he suffers momentary blindness when he steps from shadow into sunlight. The old soldier maintains a killing pace: a vast correspondence, reams of official reading matter and constant travel (this week he is on another trip to Madagascar) that would exhaust many a younger...
...that's Paola," said the young Roman princess haughtily when the visiting Prince Albert of Liege, younger (25) brother of Belgium's King Baudouin, made his first discreet inquiry last November. "She is nice, but so shy that you hardly know whether she's around or not." By the time Prince Albert got back from Rome after attending the coronation of Pope John XXIII, all the world knew that Paola was around. The gossipists reported that Albert had fallen in love with her at first sight, proposed to her at second. Last week the people of Brussels...
This year, things have been looking up for Hoad. At 24, he is seven years younger than Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...