Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four under the watchful eyes of his truck-driver father, George Kotlarek, himself a former U.S. champion. A freshman at the University of Minnesota's Duluth division, Gene practices two nights a week and on weekends with his father, still jumping at 46, and younger brothers Glenn, 17, and Wayne, 10, who compete in age-group meets. To develop strong leg and stomach muscles required for jumping, he does deep knee bends in his basement for an hour at a time with 35-lb. bags of sand on each shoulder...
Raisin belongs to the long and simple annals of the poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small...
...American who has received some education in Europe is no better off for it at Harvard; on the contrary, any vestiges are considered affectations which should be shed as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of the younger tutors, returning from Oxford and Cambridge, whose educational advances are overshadowed in the minds of students by the atrocious mannerisms they have picked up. There is no general eagerness to share these different educational experiences, no strong curiosity concerning foreign ideas...
...thousands of times (on several occasions at the special request of Franklin Roosevelt, who said it was his alltime favorite), once earned $15,000 for a single rendition. Vaudevillians Abbott and Costello joined forces in the '30s. Costello was the son of a Paterson, N.J. silkmaker. In younger, leaner days he had been a lightweight prizefighter and a Hollywood stunt man. Abbott had sold tickets in a theater box office. Their partnership hit the big time with the 1939 Broadway musical Streets of Paris, the big money with the 1941 film Buck Privates. Through 1951, they were almost always...
...says her father. Her wambly, 17-year-old stepsister Janet is too busy with a married schoolmaster to watch over her charge. Auntie Florence, nearly 80, who combs the beach for "anything and everything" and hides her treasure in a cave, is absorbed in herself. Only Hilary's younger brother Peregrine, whom she alternately pets and patronizes, shares her "delicious fearfulness." But eventually even he fails her. And when Hilary's father finally realizes that the girl was right about the murder, it is too late; he dies of a heart attack...